1929:
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January
- January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor (d. 2017)
- January 2 – Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician and First Lady of Finland
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5 – Walter Brandmüller, German cardinal
- January 6 – Babrak Karmal, Afghan politician (d. 1996)
- January 7 – Terry Moore, American actress
- January 8 – Saeed Jaffrey, Indian-born actor (d. 2015)
- January 9
- January 11
- January 12
- January 13 – Aureliano Chaves, Brazilian politician, 19th Vice President of Brazil (d. 2003)
- January 14
- January 15 – Martin Luther King Jr., African-American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
- January 17 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (d. 1986)
- January 20
- January 23
- January 25 – Benny Golson, African-American jazz musician
- January 26 – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author
- January 27 – Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian business magnate (d. 2023)
- January 28
- January 29 – Elio Petri, Italian political filmmaker (d. 1982)
- January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
- January 31
February
- February 2
- February 4 – Jerry Adler, American actor
- February 5
- February 6
- February 8
- February 10
- February 14 – Vic Morrow, American actor, director (Combat) (d. 1982)
- February 15
- February 16 – Kazimierz Kutz, Polish film director and politician (d. 2018)
- February 17
- February 18 – Len Deighton, British author
- February 19 – Jacques Deray, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
- February 20
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Patriarch Alexy II of Russia (d. 2008)
- February 24 – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish surrealist painter (d. 2005)
- February 26 – Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (d. 2018)
- February 27 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- February 28 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-born American architect
March
- March 1 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
- March 3
- March 4 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (d. 2021)
- March 5 – J. B. Lenoir, African-American blues guitarist (d. 1967)
- March 6 – Fazil Iskander, Abkhaz writer (d. 2016)
- March 8 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer (d. 2012)
- March 9
- March 13
- March 15 – Cecil Taylor, African-American jazz pianist, composer, and poet (d. 2018)
- March 16 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (d. 2023)
- March 17 – Peter L. Berger, Austrian-born American sociologist (d. 2017)
- March 18 – Christa Wolf, German literary critic, novelist, and essayist (d. 2011)
- March 22
- Yayoi Kusama, Japanese contemporary artist
- P. Ramlee, Malaysian film actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973)
- March 23
- March 27 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)
- March 29
- March 30
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Frans Andriessen, Dutch politician (d. 2019)
- April 3 – Poul Schlüter, 22nd Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2021)
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Bob Denard, French soldier and mercenary (d. 2007)
- April 8 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (d. 1978)
- April 10
- April 11 – Jack Betts, American actor
- April 14
- April 17
- April 21 – Estrella Zeledón Lizano, Costa Rican politician, First Lady (d. 2019)
- April 22 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician (d. 2019)
- April 23 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator (d. 2020)
- April 24
- April 25 – Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete (d. 2019)
- April 26 – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (d. 2019)
- April 27
- April 28
- April 29
- April 30 – Klausjürgen Wussow, German theatre, television actor (d. 2007)
May
- May 1 – Ralf Dahrendorf, Anglo-German sociologist (d. 2009)
- May 2
- May 3 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish physician (d. 2014)
- May 4
- May 5 – Ilene Woods, American singer, actress (d. 2010)
- May 6
- May 8
- May 10
- May 11 – Margaret Kerry, American actress
- May 12
- May 14
- May 15 – Otar Patsatsia, Georgian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Georgia
- May 16
- May 19 – Harvey Cox, American theologian
- May 23 – Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (d. 1982)
- May 25 – Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano, director of the New York City Opera (d. 2007)
- May 29 – Peter Higgs, British theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- May 30 – Doina Cornea, Romanian human rights activist, professor (d. 2018)
- May 31 – Menahem Golan, Israeli film producer, screenwriter, and director (d. 2014)
June
- June 1
- June 2 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
- June 3 – Werner Arber, Swiss microbiologist and Nobel laureate
- June 4 – Karolos Papoulias, 6th President of Greece (d. 2021)
- June 6 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, producer, director and politician (d. 2005)
- June 7 – John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2020)
- June 8 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor (d. 2017)
- June 9 – Johnny Ace, African-American rhythm and blues singer (d. 1954)
- June 10
- June 12 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist, Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
- June 13 – Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer and illustrator (d. 2012)
- June 14 – Cy Coleman, American composer, and songwriter (d. 2004)
- June 15 – Suraiya, Indian actress and singer (d. 2004)
- June 16 – Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (d. 2020)
- June 17
- June 18 – Jürgen Habermas, German sociologist, philosopher
- June 20
- June 21 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (d. 1977)
- June 23
- June 24 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (d. 2021)
- June 25
- June 26 – Milton Glaser, American graphic designer, illustrator and teacher (d. 2020)
- June 29
July
- July 1 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2014)
- July 2 – Imelda Marcos, 10th First Lady of the Philippines
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
- July 8 – Shirley Ann Grau, American writer (d. 2020)
- July 9
- July 10 – José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan politician (d. 2020)
- July 11
- July 13 – Sofia Muratova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2006)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20
- July 22 – Vivien Merchant, English actress (d. 1982)
- July 24 – Peter Yates, English film director and producer (d. 2011)
- July 25
- July 26 – Alexis Weissenberg, Bulgarian-born French pianist (d. 2012)
- July 27
- July 28 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States (d. 1994)
- July 29 – Remco Campert, Dutch author, poet and columnist (d. 2022)
- July 31
August
- August 1
- August 4 – Kishore Kumar, Indian singer, actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter (d. 1987)
- August 7 – Don Larsen, American baseball player (d. 2020)
- August 8
- August 12
- August 14 – Louise Slaughter, American politician (d. 2018)
- August 15 – Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (d. 2018)
- August 16 – Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
- August 17 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (d. 1977)
- August 18 – Yuan Longping, Chinese agronomist (d. 2021)
- August 21
- August 23
- August 24
- August 27 – Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, and songwriter (d. 2007)
- August 28 – Roxie Roker, African-American actress (d. 1995)
September
- September 1
- September 2 – Rex Hartwig, Australian tennis player
- September 3 – Whitey Bulger, Irish-American organized crime boss (Winter Hill Gang) (d. 2018)
- September 4 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)
- September 5 – Bob Newhart, American comedian, actor
- September 7 – Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (d. 2016)
- September 9
- September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American professional golfer (d. 2016)
- September 11 – Eve Brent, American actress (d. 2011)
- September 15
- September 16 – Jamshid bin Abdullah, last Sultan of Zanzibar
- September 17 – Stirling Moss, British race car driver (d. 2020)
- September 19 – Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle road racer (d. 2018)
- September 20 – Anne Meara, American actress, comedian (d. 2015)
- September 21
- September 22 – Carlo Ubbiali, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2020)
- September 25
- September 27 – Txillardegi, Spanish linguist, politician and writer (d. 2012)
- September 28
- September 30
October
- October 2
- October 5 – Richard F. Gordon Jr., American astronaut (d. 2017)
- October 6
- October 8 – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (d. 2017)
- October 11 – Liselotte Pulver, Swiss actress
- October 13 – Adalet Ağaoğlu, Turkish novelist and playwright (d. 2020)
- October 15
- October 16 – Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress
- October 18 – Violeta Chamorro, President of Nicaragua
- October 21
- October 22 – Lev Yashin, Soviet professional footballer (d. 1990)
- October 24 – George Crumb, American composer (d. 2022)
- October 28 – Joan Plowright, English actress
- October 29 – Yevgeny Primakov, 29th Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2015)
- October 31 – Bud Spencer, Italian actor, swimmer, and water polo player (d. 2016)
November
- November 2
- November 5 – Lennart Johansson, Swedish sports official and 5th president of UEFA (d. 2019)
- November 6 – June Squibb, American actress
- November 7 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-born neuroscientist, Nobel laureate
- November 8
- November 9 – Imre Kertész, Hungarian author (d. 2016)
- November 10 – Ninón Sevilla, Cuban-born Mexican actress, dancer (d. 2015)
- November 11
- November 12
- November 13 – Fred Phelps, American pastor and activist (d. 2014)
- November 15 – Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)
- November 17 – Gorō Naya, Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director, older brother of Rokurō Naya (d. 2013)
- November 20
- November 21 – Marilyn French, American author (d. 2009)
- November 24 – George Moscone, American attorney and politician (d. 1978)
- November 26 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovene composer and musician (d. 2015)
- November 28
- November 30 – Dick Clark, American television host and producer (d. 2012)
December
- December 1
- December 6
- December 9
- December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese pianist and composer
- December 13 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
- December 14
- December 15 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, former Queen of Jordan (d. 2019)
- December 17 – William Safire, American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter (d. 2009)
- December 18 – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013)
- December 20
- December 23 – Chet Baker, American jazz musician (d. 1988)
- December 28
- December 29 – Susie Garrett, African-American actress (d. 2002)
- December 31 – Mies Bouwman, Dutch television presenter (d. 2018)
1930:
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January
- January 1
- January 2 – Julius La Rosa, American singer (d. 2016)
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- January 6
- January 7 – Jack Greene, American country music singer and songwriter (d. 2013)
- January 9 – Pavel Kolchin, Soviet Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2010)
- January 10 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
- January 11 – Rod Taylor, Australian actor (d. 2015)
- January 12 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player, co-founder of Tim Hortons fast food chain (d. 1974)
- January 13 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress (d. 2023)
- January 14 – Kenny Wheeler, Canadian composer (d. 2014)
- January 15 – Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (d. 2020)
- January 19 – Tippi Hedren, American actress
- January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American pilot, astronaut (Apollo 11)
- January 21 – Mainza Chona, Zambian politician, diplomat (d. 2001)
- January 23
- January 24
- January 27 – Bobby Bland, African-American R&B musician (d. 2013)
- January 28
- January 29 – Norio Ohga, Japanese businessman (d. 2011)
- January 30
- January 31 – Jo Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
February
- February 1
- February 3 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet, essayist, writer, and politician (d. 2016)
- February 4
- February 8
- February 10 – Robert Wagner, American actor
- February 12 – Arlen Specter, American lawyer, author, and politician (d. 2012)
- February 13 – Ernst Fuchs, Austrian painter (d. 2015)
- February 15 – Sara Jane Moore, American prison activist, convicted of the attempted murder of President Gerald Ford
- February 17 – Ruth Rendell, English author (d. 2015)
- February 18 – Theodore Freeman, American astronaut (d. 1964)
- February 19 – John Frankenheimer, American film director (d. 2002)
- February 22 – Marni Nixon, American vocalist (d. 2016)
- February 23
- February 24 – Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (d. 2013)
- February 25 – Wendy Beckett, English contemplative nun and art historian (d. 2018)
- February 26
- February 27 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
- February 28
March
April
- April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
- April 3
- April 5
- April 7
- April 8 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
- April 9 – F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
- April 10
- April 11
- April 12 – John Landy, Australian athlete (d. 2022)
- April 13 – Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian film director, actor, and politician (d. 2013)
- April 14 – Bradford Dillman, American actor, author (d. 2018)
- April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
- April 16 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (d. 2003)
- April 17 – Chris Barber, English jazz bandleader and trombonist (d. 2021)
- April 18
- April 19 – Dick Sargent, American actor, gay activist (d. 1994)
- April 21 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
- April 23 – Alan Oppenheimer, American actor
- April 24
- April 25 – Paul Mazursky, American director, writer (d. 2014)
- April 26 – Roger Moens, Belgian athlete and sportscaster
- April 28
- April 29
May
- May 1 – Little Walter, African-American blues singer, musician, and songwriter (d. 1968)
- May 2
- May 3 – Juan Gelman, Argentine poet, writer (d. 2014)
- May 4
- May 5 – Michael J. Adams, American aviator, aeronautical engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
- May 8
- May 9 – Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
- May 10
- May 11 – Edsger W. Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
- May 12
- May 13
- May 15 – Jasper Johns, American painter
- May 18 – Don L. Lind, American astronaut (d. 2022)
- May 19
- May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2015)
- May 22
- May 25 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
- May 27 – John Barth, American writer
- May 28
- May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, and producer
June
- June 1
- June 2 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut, moonwalker and commander of Apollo 12 (d. 1999)
- June 3
- June 4
- June 6 – Frank Tyson, English cricketer (d. 2015)
- June 7 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (d. 2014)
- June 8 – Robert Aumann, German-born mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- June 9
- June 10 – Ilya Glazunov, Russian artist (d. 2017)
- June 11
- June 12
- June 14
- June 16 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (d. 2016)
- June 19 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
- June 20
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24
- June 26 – Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, Pakistani economist, civil servant (d. 2016)
- June 27
- June 28
- June 29
- June 30
July
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3
- July 4
- July 5 – John Wood, English actor (d. 2011)
- July 6
- July 7
- July 9 – Sim Iness, American athlete (d. 1996)
- July 11 – Harold Bloom, American literary critic (d. 2019)
- July 12 – Guy Ligier, French racing driver and team owner (d. 2015)
- July 14 – Polly Bergen, American actress (d. 2014)
- July 15
- July 17 – Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (d. 2019)
- July 20
- July 21 – Helen Merrill, American jazz vocalist
- July 22 – Sebastiano Mannironi, Italian weightlifter (d. 2015)
- July 25 – Maureen Forrester, Canadian contralto (d. 2010)
- July 27 – Andy White, Scottish drummer (d. 2015)
- July 31 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown (d. 2016)
August
- August 1
- August 4 – Ali al-Sistani, Shia Ayatollah
- August 5
- August 6 – Abbey Lincoln, African-American singer and actress (d. 2010)
- August 8 – Nita Talbot, American actress
- August 9 – Jacques Parizeau, French-Canadian politician (d. 2015)
- August 10
- August 12
- August 14 – Liz Fraser, English actress (d. 2018)
- August 15 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan trade unionist, educationist, Pan Africanist, author and independence activist (d. 1969)
- August 16
- August 17 – Ted Hughes, English poet (d. 1998)
- August 18 – Liviu Librescu, Romanian–American scientist and engineer (d. 2007)
- August 19 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and writer (d. 2009)
- August 20 – Jan Olszewski, 3rd Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2019)
- August 21
- August 22 – Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
- August 23
- August 25
- August 27 – Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (d. 1968)
- August 28
- August 29 – Atef Sedky, 45th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2005)
- August 30 – Warren Buffett, American billionaire entrepreneur
September
- September 1 – Charles Correa, Indian architect (d. 2015)
- September 7
- September 8
- September 9 – Frank Lucas, African-American drug trafficker (d. 2019)
- September 10 – Liliana Segre, Italian politician and holocaust survivor
- September 11
- September 12 – Akira Suzuki, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 13 – Jimmy McLane, American swimmer (d. 2020)
- September 14
- September 16 – Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- September 17
- September 19
- September 21 – Dawn Addams, English actress (d. 1985)
- September 23
- September 24 – John Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Shel Silverstein, American author, poet and humorist (d. 1999)
- September 26
- September 28 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist (d. 2019)
- September 29 – Colin Dexter, English author (d. 2017)
October
November
- November 3 – Lois Smith, American actress
- November 4
- November 5 – Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
- November 11
- November 13 – Richard A. Falk, American professor emeritus
- November 14
- November 15 – J. G. Ballard, English writer (d. 2009)
- November 16
- November 17 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (d. 2006)
- November 19 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
- November 22
- November 23 – Robert Easton, American actor (d. 2011)
- November 25 – Clarke Scholes, American freestyle swimmer (d. 2010)
- November 29 – David Goldblatt, South African photographer (d. 2018)
- November 30 – G. Gordon Liddy, American organizer of the Watergate burglaries (d. 2021)
December
- December 2
- December 3 – Jean-Luc Godard, French film director (d. 2022)
- December 4
- December 6
- December 8 – Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
- December 9
- December 11
- December 12 – Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host, entrepreneur
- December 13 – Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008)
- December 15 – Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, and poet
- December 17
- December 18 – Sonja Edström, Swedish cross-country skier (d. 2020)
- December 21 – Kalevi Sorsa, 14th Prime Minister of Finland (d. 2004)
- December 26 – Donald Moffat, English actor (d. 2018)
- December 27 – Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist (d. 2021)
- December 28 – Franzl Lang, German Yodeler (d. 2015)
- December 30 – Tu Youyou, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist
- December 31 – Odetta, American singer (d. 2008)
1931:
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January
- January 1 – Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016)
- January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, 2-time Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
- January 4
- January 5
- January 6 – E. L. Doctorow, American author (d. 2015)
- January 8 – Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
- January 9 – Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American sci-fi author (d. 2008)
- January 10 – Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malaysian politician, Muslim cleric (d. 2015)
- January 12 – Yao Wenyuan, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
- January 13
- January 14 – Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
- January 16 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (d. 2006)
- January 17 – James Earl Jones, African-American actor
- January 18 – Chun Doo-hwan, 5th President of South Korea
- January 20
- January 22 – Sam Cooke, African-American singer (d. 1964)
- January 24 – Lars Hörmander, Swedish mathematician (d. 2012)
- January 25
- January 26 – Bernard Panafieu, French cardinal (d. 2017)
- January 27 – Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
- January 28 – Lucia Bosè, Italian actress (d. 2020)
- January 29 – Ferenc Mádl, 2nd President of Hungary (d. 2011)
- January 31 – Ernie Banks, African-American baseball player (d. 2015)
February
March
- March 1 – Lamberto Dini, Italian politician, economist and 51st Prime Minister of Italy
- March 2 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2022)
- March 4 – William H. Keeler, American cardinal (d. 2017)
- March 6
- March 7 – Atsuko, Princess Yori, fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa
- March 8 – Neil Postman, American media theorist and cultural critic (d. 2003)
- March 9 – León Febres Cordero, 35th President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
- March 11
- March 12 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman (d. 2019)
- March 14 – Lisbet Palme, Swedish child psychologist (d. 2018)
- March 15 – D. J. Fontana, American drummer (d. 2018)
- March 16 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (d. 2009)
- March 17 – Eunice Gayson, English actress (d. 2018)
- March 18
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- March 24 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
- March 25 – Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (d. 2011)
- March 26 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)
- March 27 – David Janssen, American actor (d. 1980)
- March 28 – Anatoly Lein, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster (d. 2018)
- March 29 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2015)
- March 31 – Alan Newton, English track cyclist
April
- April 1 – Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright (d. 2020)
- April 2 – Joseph Joffo, French author (d. 2018)
- April 5 – Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter, record producer (d. 2013)
- April 6
- April 7 – Daniel Ellsberg, American economist, and activist (d. 2023)
- April 8 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (d. 2018)
- April 11
- April 12 – Chico Anysio, Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer (d. 2012)
- April 13 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver (d. 2018)
- April 15 – Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish Nobel poet and translator (d. 2015)
- April 17 – David Axelrod, American musician (d. 2017)
- April 18 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete
- April 21 – Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 122nd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch (d. 2014)
- April 27 – Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (d. 2021)
- April 29
May
- May 3 – Aldo Rossi, Italian architect and designer (d. 1997)
- May 6 – Willie Mays, African-American baseball player
- May 7
- May 8 – Bob Clotworthy, American diver (d. 2018)
- May 9 – Vance D. Brand, American astronaut
- May 10
- May 13 – Jim Jones, American People's Temple cult leader (d. 1978)
- May 15 – James Fitz-Allen Mitchell, 2nd Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (d. 2021)
- May 16
- May 17 – Marshall Applewhite, American Heaven's Gate religious sect founder (d. 1997)
- May 18 – Robert Morse, American actor (d. 2022)
- May 20 – George Vassiliou, 3rd President of Cyprus
- May 23 – Barbara Barrie, American actress and writer
- May 24 – Michael Lonsdale, French actor (d. 2020)
- May 25 – Georgy Grechko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
- May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress (d. 2015)
- May 28
- May 31
June
- June 2 – Viktor Tsaryov, Russian footballer (d. 2017)
- June 3
- June 4 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2019)
- June 5 – Jacques Demy, French director, lyricist, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
- June 6 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (d. 2020)
- June 7 – Virginia McKenna, English actress
- June 8 – Dana Wynter, German-born American actress (d. 2011)
- June 9 – Joe Santos, Italian-American actor (d. 2016)
- June 10 – João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova (d. 2019)
- June 14
- June 16 – John Shelby Spong, American Episcopal prelate (d. 2021)
- June 17 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (d. 2020)
- June 18 – Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 34th President of Brazil
- June 20
- June 21 – Margaret Heckler, American Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2018)
- June 22 – Ian Browne, Australian track cyclist
- June 23 – Ola Ullsten, Swedish politician and diplomat (d. 2018)
- June 24
- June 25 – V. P. Singh, Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
- June 26 – Colin Wilson, English writer, philosopher and novelist (d. 2013)
- June 27
- June 28 – Hans Alfredson, Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian (d. 2017)
- June 30 – Allan Jay, British Olympian foil and épée fencer
July
- July 1
- July 4
- July 5 – James Burke, Irish-American mobster (d. 1996)
- July 6
- July 7 – David Eddings, American author (d. 2009)
- July 8 – Thorvald Stoltenberg, Norwegian politician (d. 2018)
- July 10
- July 11
- July 13 – Frank Ramsey, American professional basketball player, coach (d. 2018)
- July 14
- July 15 – Clive Cussler, American author (d. 2020)
- July 17 – Caroline Graham, English playwright, screenwriter and novelist
- July 22 – Guido de Marco, Maltese politician, 6th President of Malta (d. 2010)
- July 23 – Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (d. 2006)
- July 26 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
- July 27 – Jerry Van Dyke, American comedian, actor (d. 2018)
- July 31 – Kenny Burrell, American jazz guitarist
August
- August 1
- August 3 – Vladimir Trusenyov, Russian discus thrower (d. 2001)
- August 6
- August 8 – Roger Penrose, English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher
- August 9 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2024)
- August 10 – Tom Laughlin, American actor (d. 2013)
- August 12 – William Goldman, American author (d. 2018)
- August 15
- August 16 – Harold Bernard St. John, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2004)
- August 18 – Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (d. 2010)
- August 19
- August 20 – Don King, American boxing promoter
- August 23
- August 25 – Regis Philbin, American actor, singer and television personality (d. 2020)
- August 27
- August 28 – Shunichiro Okano, Japanese footballer and manager (d. 2017)
- August 30 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
- August 31
September
- September 1 – Arturo Pomar, Spanish chess grandmaster (d. 2016)
- September 3 – Paulo Maluf, Brazilian politician
- September 4 – Mitzi Gaynor, American actress, singer and dancer
- September 5 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (d. 2018)
- September 7 – Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman and football club president (d. 2018)
- September 10 – Philip Baker Hall, American actor (d. 2022)
- September 12
- September 13
- September 16 – E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (d. 2018)
- September 17
- September 18 – Julio Grondona, Argentine football executive (d. 2014)
- September 19
- September 20 – Haya Harareet, Israeli actress and screenwriter (d. 2021)
- September 21
- September 22 – Fay Weldon, British author (d. 2023)
- September 24
- September 27 – Freddy Quinn, Austrian singer, actor
- September 29
- September 30 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
October
- October 3 – Denise Scott Brown, American architect
- October 6 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born astrophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 2018)
- October 7
- October 13
- October 15
- October 16 – Charles Colson, American politician, Watergate conspirator, later evangelist (d. 2012)
- October 17
- October 19
- October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
- October 21 – Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor and film director (d. 2011)
- October 22 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer (d. 2015)
- October 23
- October 25
- October 27 – Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian feminist and writer (d. 2021)
- October 28 – Analía Gadé, Argentine actress (d. 2019)
- October 29 – Franco Interlenghi, Italian actor (d. 2015)
- October 30 – Dick Gautier, American actor (d. 2017)
- October 31
November
- November 1 – Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer (d. 2021)
- November 2 – Phil Woods, American saxophonist (d. 2015)
- November 3
- November 4 – Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal (d. 2017)
- November 5 – Ike Turner, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
- November 6
- November 8
- November 12 – Norman Mineta, American politician (d. 2022)
- November 15
- November 16 – Hubert Sumlin, American blues musician (d. 2011)
- November 17 – Yusuf Zuayyin, 51st and 53rd Prime Minister of Syria (d. 2016)
- November 21 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
- November 25 – Nat Adderley, African-American jazz musician (d. 2000)
- November 26
- November 28 – Tomi Ungerer, French artist, illustrator and writer (d. 2019)
- November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
December
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January
- January 3
- January 4 – Carlos Saura, Spanish film director (d. 2023)
- January 5
- January 7 – Max Gallo, French writer, historian and politician (d. 2017)
- January 11 – Alfonso Arau, Mexican actor and director
- January 13 – Joseph Zen, Chinese cardinal
- January 16 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
- January 17 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (d. 2005)
- January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
- January 19 – Richard Lester, American film director
- January 22 – Piper Laurie, American actress (d. 2023)
- January 24 – Henri Nouwen, Dutch priest and author (d. 1996)
- January 25 – Nikolay Anikin, Soviet cross-country skier (d. 2009)
- January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
- January 27 – Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2008)
- January 29 – Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
- January 30 – Kazuo Inamori, Japanese businessman (d. 2022)
February
- February 1 – Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese spiritual leader (d. 2016)
- February 2 – Robert Mandan, American actor (d. 2018)
- February 3
- February 5 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2016)
- February 6
- February 7
- February 8
- February 9 – Gerhard Richter, German painter
- February 10 – Robert Taylor, American computer scientist (d. 2017)
- February 12
- February 13 – Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
- February 14
- February 16
- February 18 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (d. 2018)
- February 19
- February 20 – Enrique Múgica, Spanish lawyer and politician (d. 2020)
- February 22 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
- February 23 – Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
- February 24
- February 25
- February 26 – Johnny Cash, American country singer (d. 2003)
- February 27 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
- February 28 – Don Francks, Canadian actor, singer and musician (d. 2016)
March
- March 4
- March 5 – Earl Woods, African-American army officer (d. 2006)
- March 6
- March 7
- March 10
- March 11 – Leroy Jenkins, African-American jazz musician and composer (d. 2007)
- March 12 – Andrew Young, African-American politician, diplomat and activist
- March 14
- March 15
- Alan Bean, American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut (d. 2018)
- Arif Mardin, Turkish-American music producer (d. 2006)
- March 16 – Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (d. 2023)
- March 18 – John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
- March 21 – Walter Gilbert, American chemist and Nobel laureate
- March 22 – Els Borst, Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1998–2002) (d. 2014)
- March 26 – Luke Askew, American actor (d. 2012)
- March 27 – Junior Parker, African-American blues musician (d. 1971)
- March 28 – Sven Lindqvist, Swedish author (d. 2019)
- March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013)
April
May
- May 1 – Donald Kagan, Lithuanian-born American historian (d. 2021)
- May 3
- May 6 – Antal Bolvári, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2019)
- May 7 – Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
- May 8
- May 9 – Geraldine McEwan, English actress (d. 2015)
- May 11 – Valentino, Italian fashion designer
- May 14 – Bob Johnston, American record producer (d. 2015)
- May 15
- May 17 – Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (d. 2017)
- May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
- May 21 – Jean Stablinski, French professional cyclist (d. 2007)
- May 23 – Dino Sani, Brazilian footballer and coach
- May 24 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright (d. 2016)
- May 25 – K. C. Jones, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
- May 27 – José Varacka, Argentine footballer and coach (d. 2018)
- May 29
- May 30
June
- June 4
- June 5 – Christy Brown, Irish writer and painter (d. 1981)
- June 6
- June 10
- June 11 – Athol Fugard, South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director
- June 12
- June 13
- June 14 – Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, Spanish bishop (d. 2016)
- June 15
- June 17
- June 18
- June 19
- June 20 – Robert Rozhdestvensky, Soviet Poet (d. 1994)
- June 21 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor
- June 22
- June 24 – Margit Korondi, Hungarian gymnast
- June 25
- June 26 – Marguerite Pindling, Governor-General of the Bahamas
- June 27 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
- June 28 – Pat Morita, Japanese-American actor (d. 2005)
- June 29 – Soon-Tek Oh, Korean-American actor (d. 2018)
July
- July 2 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (d. 1989)
- July 3 – Josef Musil, Czech volleyball player (d. 2017)
- July 5 – Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 2013)
- July 7 – Joe Zawinul, Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer (d. 2007)
- July 8 – Barbara Loden, American actress (d. 1980)
- July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, 13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense (d. 2021)
- July 10 – Carlo Maria Abate, Italian auto racing driver (d. 2019)
- July 11 – Hans van Manen, Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18 – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (d. 2017)
- July 20
- July 22
- July 25 – Paul J. Weitz, American astronaut (d. 2017)
- July 26 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (d. 1985)
- July 29 – Nancy Kassebaum, American politician
- July 30 – Edd Byrnes, American actor (d. 2020)
- July 31
August
- August 1
- August 2
- August 4 – Frances E. Allen, American computer scientist (d. 2020)
- August 5 – Ja'Net DuBois, African-American actress (d. 2020)
- August 6 – Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker (d. 2017)
- August 7 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian olympic athlete (d. 1973)
- August 8
- August 9 – Anand Panyarachun, 18th Prime Minister of Thailand
- August 11
- August 12 – Sirikit, Queen consort of Thailand
- August 15
- August 17 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
- August 18 – Luc Montagnier, French virologist and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2022)
- August 19 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2016)
- August 20 – Vasily Aksyonov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
- August 21 – Melvin Van Peebles, African-American actor, filmmaker, playwright, novelist and composer (d. 2021)
- August 22 – Gerald Carr, American astronaut (d. 2020)
- August 23 – Houari Boumediene, 2nd President of Algeria (d. 1978)
- August 24
- August 26 – Joe Engle, American astronaut
- August 27 – Saye Zerbo, 3rd President and 4th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (d. 2013)
- August 28 – Raul Cortez, Brazilian actor (d. 2006)
September
- September 1
- September 3 – Eileen Brennan, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- September 5 – Carol Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer
- September 8 – Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
- September 10 – Félix Malloum, 2nd President of Chad (d. 2009)
- September 12 – Atli Dam, 3-Time Prime Minister of Faroe Islands (d. 2005)
- September 17 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (d. 2016)
- September 18
- September 21 – Mickey Kuhn, American child actor
- September 22
- September 25
- September 26
- September 27
- September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1973)
- September 29
- September 30 – Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (d. 2022)
October
- October 1 – Albert Collins, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 2013)
- October 2 – Henri Namphy, 36th President of Haiti (d. 2018)
- October 3
- October 7 – Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian Croat writer and scholar (d. 2017)
- October 8 – Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
- October 9 – Judy Tyler, American actress (d. 1957)
- October 11 – Dottie West, American singer and songwriter (d. 1991)
- October 12
- October 13
- October 14 – Wolf Vostell, German artist (d. 1998)
- October 17 – Paul Anderson, American weightlifter (d. 1994)
- October 18 – Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
- October 19 – Robert Reed, American actor (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992)
- October 20
- October 21 – Pál Csernai, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
- October 23 – Vasily Belov, Soviet-Russian writer, poet and dramatist (d. 2012)
- October 24
- October 25 – Vitold Fokin, 1st Prime Minister of Ukraine
- October 26 – Manfred Max-Neef, Chilean economist (d. 2019)
- October 27
- October 28
- October 30 – Louis Malle, French film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 1995)
November
- November 1 – A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, 13th President of Bangladesh
- November 2
- November 3 – Albert Reynolds, 8th Taoiseach of Ireland (d. 2014)
- November 4 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
- November 6 – Stonewall Jackson, American country singer, guitarist and musician
- November 8
- November 10
- November 13
- November 15
- November 20 – Richard Dawson, English-American actor, comedian, and game show host (d. 2012)
- November 21 – Beryl Bainbridge, English writer (d. 2010)
- November 22 – Robert Vaughn, American actor (d. 2016)
- November 24 – Claudio Naranjo, Chilean psychiatrist (d. 2019)
- November 27 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician and senator (d. 1983)
- November 28 – Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (d. 2016)
- November 29 – Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France (d. 2019)
December
- December 3 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (d. 2016)
- December 4 – Roh Tae-woo, 6th President of South Korea (d. 2021)
- December 5
- December 7
- December 9 – Donald Byrd, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
- December 12 – Bob Pettit, American basketball player
- December 13 – Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese actor
- December 14
- December 15 – Curtis Fuller, American jazz trombonist (d. 2021)
- December 16 – Rodion Shchedrin, Russian composer and pianist
- December 18 – Roger Smith, American actor (d. 2017)
- December 20 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
- December 21 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (d. 2014)
- December 23 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (d. 2016)
- December 24 – Colin Cowdrey, English cricketer (d. 2000)
- December 28
- December 29 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer (d. 2023)
- December 30 – Paolo Villaggio, Italian writer and actor (d. 2017)
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January
- January 1
- January 2 – On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist (d. 2014)
- January 4 – Ilia II of Georgia, Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church
- January 6 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- January 9 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-born South African novelist (d. 2021)
- January 12
- January 13 – Tom Gola, American basketball player (d. 2014)
- January 14 – Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
- January 16 – Susan Sontag, American author (d. 2004)
- January 17
- January 18
- January 21 – Habib Thiam, Senegal politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2017)
- January 23
- January 25 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (d. 2009)
- January 29 – Sacha Distel, French singer, guitarist, and actor (d. 2004)
February
- February 1 – Wendell R. Anderson, American hockey player, and politician (d. 2016)
- February 2
- February 3 – Paul Sarbanes, American politician (d. 2020)
- February 5
- February 8
- February 9 – John Mitchell, English author (d. 2009)
- February 12 – Costa-Gavras, Greek-born director, writer
- February 13
- February 14 – Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
- February 17 – Craig L. Thomas, American politician (d. 2007)
- February 18
- February 21 – Nina Simone, African-American singer (d. 2003)
- February 22 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, British royal, musician and patron of the arts
- February 23 – Lee Calhoun, American athlete (d. 1989)
- February 26
- February 28 – Charles Vinci, American weightlifter (d. 2018)
March
- March 3
- March 5 – Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (d. 2018)
- March 7 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- March 9 – Lloyd Price, African-American R&B singer and vocalist (d. 2021)
- March 12
- March 13 – Mike Stoller, American songwriter
- March 14
- March 15
- March 17 – Penelope Lively, English writer
- March 18 – Unita Blackwell, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2019)
- March 19
- March 21 – Michael Heseltine, British politician and businessman
- March 22
- March 23 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, professor emeritus at Stanford University
- March 24 – William Smith, American actor (d. 2021)
- March 28
- March 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (d. 2007)
- March 31 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1983)
April
- April 1
- April 4
- April 5 – Frank Gorshin, American actor (Batman) (d. 2005)
- April 7
- April 9
- April 11 – Denis Goldberg, South African social campaigner (d. 2020)
- April 12 – Montserrat Caballé, Catalan operatic soprano (d. 2018)
- April 13 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Cheyenne-American politician
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16 – Marcos Alonso, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
- April 19 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- April 21 – Ian Carr, Scottish jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator (d. 2009)
- April 25 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011)
- April 26
- April 29
- Mark Eyskens, 45th Prime Minister of Belgium
- Rod McKuen, American singer, songwriter and poet (d. 2015)
- Willie Nelson, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, producer, author, poet and activist
- April 30 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2016)
May
- May 3
- May 5 – Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (d. 2016)
- May 7
- May 10 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, English writer
- May 11 – Louis Farrakhan, African-American Muslim leader
- May 12 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet and writer (d. 2010)
- May 14
- May 15 – Peter Broadbent, English footballer (d. 2013)
- May 18 – H. D. Deve Gowda, Indian politician, 11th Prime Minister of India
- May 19 – Edward de Bono, Maltese physician, psychologist, author, inventor, philosopher and consultant (d. 2021)
- May 20 – Constance Towers, American actress
- May 21 – Maurice André, French trumpeter (d. 2012)
- May 22 – Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician (d. 1996)
- May 23 – Joan Collins, English actress
- May 28 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (d. 2010)
- May 29 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
- May 30 – Stefano Rodotà, Italian jurist and politician (d. 2017)
June
- June 1
- June 3 – Celso Torrelio, 69th President of Bolivia (d. 1999)
- June 4 – Godfried Danneels, Belgian cardinal (d. 2019)
- June 6 – Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- June 7 – Beverly Wills, American actress (d. 1963)
- June 8 – Joan Rivers, American actress, comedian, television host (d. 2014)
- June 9 – Don Young, American politician (d. 2022)
- June 10 – F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (d. 2021)
- June 11 – Gene Wilder, American actor (d. 2016)
- June 12 – Eddie Adams, American photographer and photojournalist (d. 2004)
- June 13 – Sven-Olov Sjödelius, Swedish sprint canoeist (d. 2018)
- June 14 – Henri, Count of Paris, French noble (d. 2019)
- June 15 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai, 2nd President of Iran, 47th Prime Minister of Iran (d. 1981)
- June 17 – Rod Paige, African-American politician
- June 19 – Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1971)
- June 20 – Danny Aiello, American actor (d. 2019)
- June 21 – Bernie Kopell, American actor and comedian
- June 22 – Dianne Feinstein, American politician (d. 2023)
- June 24 – Sam Jones, African-American professional basketball player (d. 2021)
- June 25
- June 26 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (d. 2014)
- June 27 – Gary Crosby, American actor and singer (d. 1995)
- June 29 – Hayes Alan Jenkins, American figure skater
- June 30 – Lea Massari, Italian actress
July
- July 1 – Rashied Ali, American jazz free drummer (d. 2009)
- July 3 – Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, German prince (d. 2022)
- July 7
- July 9 – Oliver Sacks, English-born neurologist (d. 2015)
- July 10 – Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete (d. 2007)
- July 12 – Donald E. Westlake, American writer (d. 2008)
- July 13 – David Storey, English playwright, screenwriter, and novelist (d. 2017)
- July 14
- July 15
- July 16 – Brad Harris, American actor and stunt performer (d. 2017)
- July 17 – Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, 9th Prime Minister of Malta
- July 18
- July 20 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (d. 2023)
- July 23 – Richard Rogers, Italian-born British architect (d. 2021)
- July 24 – John Aniston, American actor (d. 2022)
- July 26 – Edmund Phelps, American economist
- July 29
- July 31 – Cees Nooteboom, Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist
August
- August 1
- August 2 – Tom Bell, English actor (d. 2006)
- August 4 – Sheldon Adelson, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (d. 2021)
- August 7
- August 9
- August 10
- August 11 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, conservative political activist (d. 2007)
- August 14 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
- August 15
- August 16
- August 17
- August 18
- August 20
- August 21 – Janet Baker, English mezzo-soprano
- August 22 – Sylva Koscina, Italian-Croatian actress (d. 1994)
- August 23
- August 25
- August 26 – Robert Chartoff, American film producer (d. 2015)
- August 27 – Kerstin Ekman, Swedish novelist
- August 29
September
- September 1
- September 2 – Mathieu Kérékou, 5th President of Benin (d. 2015)
- September 4 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (d. 1988)
- September 5 – Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Chilean cardinal
- September 8
- September 9 – Michael Novak, American philosopher, author (d. 2017)
- September 10
- September 11
- September 14
- September 15
- September 17
- September 18
- September 19 – David McCallum, Scottish actor (d. 2023)
- September 20 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (d. 1999)
- September 24 – Raffaele Farina, Italian cardinal, archivist of the Holy Roman Church
- September 25 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach, broadcaster
- September 27
- September 29 – Samora Machel, 1st President of Mozambique (d. 1986)
- September 30 – Cissy Houston, African-American singer
October
- October 2 – John Gurdon, British developmental biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- October 3 – Abdon Pamich, Italian Olympic athlete
- October 5 – Diane Cilento, Australian actress and author (d. 2011)
- October 9 – Peter Mansfield, British physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2017)
- October 10
- October 13 – Mark Zakharov, Soviet and Russian film and theater director (d. 2019)
- October 17
- October 18 – Firuz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani politician (d. 2018)
- October 19 – Dom Geraldo Majella, Brazilian Roman Catholic Cardinal
- October 24
- October 28 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (d. 1983)
- October 30 – Warith Deen Mohammed, American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher and revivalist (d. 2008)
- October 31 – Narriman Sadek, Queen of Egypt (d. 2005)
November
- November 3
- November 4 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese electrical engineer, physicist and Nobel laureate (d. 2018)
- November 5 – Herb Edelman, American actor (d. 1996)
- November 6 – Knut Johannesen, Norwegian speed-skater
- November 9 – Lucian Pintilie, Romanian film director, screenwriter (d. 2018)
- November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast
- November 12 – Jalal Talabani, 8th President of Iraq (d. 2017)
- November 13 – Peter Härtling, German writer and poet (d. 2017)
- November 14 – Fred Haise, American astronaut
- November 15 – Gloria Foster, African-American actress (d. 2001)
- November 16 – Guy Stockwell, American actor (d. 2002)
- November 19 – Larry King, American talk show host (d. 2021)
- November 21 – Henry Hartsfield, American colonel and astronaut (d. 2014)
- November 23 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (d. 2020)
- November 25 – Kathryn Grant, American actress
- November 26 – Robert Goulet, American entertainer (d. 2007)
- November 28 – Hope Lange, American actress (d. 2003)
- November 29
December
- December 1
- December 2 – Mike Larrabee, American Olympic athlete (d. 2003)
- December 3 – Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
- December 4 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
- December 6 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
- December 8 – Flip Wilson, African-American actor and comedian (d. 1998)
- December 9 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete (d. 2012)
- December 10 – Mako, Japanese-American actor (d. 2006)
- December 12 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (d. 2020)
- December 13 – Lou Adler, American film and record producer
- December 14 – Justin Rakotoniaina, 3rd Prime Minister of Madagascar (d. 2001)
- December 15 – Tim Conway, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
- December 18 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017)
- December 20 – Jean Carnahan, American politician
- December 22 – Abel Pacheco, 44th President of Costa Rica
- December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan
- December 25
- December 26 – Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (d. 2019)
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January
- January 1 – Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Ecuadorian cardinal (d. 2020)
- January 4
- January 6 – Sylvia Syms, English actress
- January 7
- January 8
- January 9 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
- January 10 – Leonid Kravchuk, 1st President of Ukraine (d. 2022)
- January 11
- January 14 – Richard Briers, English actor (d. 2013)
- January 16
- January 17 – Cedar Walton, American jazz pianist (d. 2013)
- January 18 – Raymond Briggs, British writer and illustrator (d. 2022)
- January 20 – Tom Baker, British actor
- January 21 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (d. 2017)
- January 22 – Bill Bixby, American actor, director (d. 1993)
- January 23 – Lou Antonio, American actor, director
- January 26 – Bob Uecker, American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian and actor
- January 27 – Édith Cresson, 89th Prime Minister of France
- January 28 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor (d. 1970)
- January 29 – Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and Olympic skier (d. 2013)
- January 30 – Tammy Grimes, American actress (d. 2016)
- January 31
February
March
- March 1 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
- March 4
- March 5
- March 6 – Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Ukrainian-Russian writer and satirist (d. 2020)
- March 7 – Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show) (d. 2021)
- March 9
- March 14
- March 16 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian statesman, 24th Governor-General of Canada (d. 2002)
- March 18 – Charley Pride, African-American singer, musician and guitarist (d. 2020)
- March 20
- March 21 – Al Freeman Jr., African-American actor (d. 2012)
- March 22
- March 23 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 2017)
- March 25
- March 26 – Alan Arkin, American actor (d. 2023)
- March 27 – Arthur Mitchell, African-American ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 2018)
- March 28 – Lester R. Brown, American environmentalist
- March 30 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (d. 2014)
- March 31
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician (d. 2007)
- April 3 – Jane Goodall, British zoologist
- April 5 – Roman Herzog, 9th President of Germany (d. 2017)
- April 6 – Anton Geesink, Dutch 10th-dan judoka (d. 2010)
- April 7 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007)
- April 8 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
- April 10 – David Halberstam, American journalist and historian (d. 2007)
- April 11 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet (d. 2014)
- April 18 – James Drury, American actor (d. 2020)
- April 19 – John Malecela, 6th Prime Minister of Tanzania
- April 24
- April 29
May
- May 3
- May 4 – Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
- May 6 – Richard Shelby, American politician
- May 9
- May 10 – Gary Owens, American disc jockey, actor, and radio announcer (d. 2015)
- May 17 – Ronald Wayne, American businessman
- May 18 – Dwayne Hickman, American actor (d. 2022)
- May 21 – Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- May 23 – Robert Moog, American inventor of the synthesizer (d. 2005)
- May 27 – Harlan Ellison, American writer (d. 2018)
- May 28 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (d. 1997)
- May 30 – Alexei Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
- May 31 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1979)
June
- June 1 – Pat Boone, American actor and singer
- June 6 – King Albert II of Belgium
- June 7 – Koloa Talake, 7th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (d. 2008)
- June 9 – Jackie Wilson, African-American singer (d. 1984)
- June 10 – Alois Mock, Austrian politician (d. 2017)
- June 11 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, French-born consort of the Danish monarch (d. 2018)
- June 13 – June Foulds, British athlete (d. 2020)
- June 16
- June 18
- June 19 – Désiré Rakotoarijaona, 4th Prime Minister of Madagascar
- June 20 – Rossana Podesta, Libyan-born Italian actress (d. 2013)
- June 21 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (d. 2019)
- June 26 – Dave Grusin, American composer, arranger, producer, and pianist
- June 28
- June 29 – Susan George, American and French political, social scientist, activist and writer
- June 30 – C. N. R. Rao, Indian chemist
July
- July 1
- July 3 – Stefan Abadzhiev, Bulgarian football player
- July 7 – Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (d. 2018)
- July 8
- July 9 – Michael Graves, American architect (d. 2015)
- July 10 – Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer (d. 2012)
- July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
- July 12 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
- July 13
- July 14
- July 15 – Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (d. 2022)
- July 16 – George Hilton, Uruguayan-Italian actor (d. 2019)
- July 17 – Lucio Tan, Chinese-Filipino billionaire businessman, educator
- July 18
- July 19 – Francisco de Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
- July 20 – Uwe Johnson, German writer, editor, and scholar (d. 1984)
- July 21 – Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, author, humorist, and medical doctor (d. 2019)
- July 22
- July 25 – Claude Zidi, French film director
- July 28
- July 29 – Albert Speer, German architect (d. 2017)
August
- August 2 – Valery Bykovsky, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2019)
- August 3 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan political, rebel leader (d. 2002)
- August 5
- August 6 – Chris Bonington, British mountaineer
- August 9 – Cynthia Harris, American actress (d. 2021)
- August 13 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2019)
- August 15
- August 16
- August 18
- August 20
- August 21 – John L. Hall, American physicist
- August 22 – Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army general (d. 2012)
- August 24 – Kenny Baker, English actor (d. 2016)
- August 25
- August 26 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (d. 2020)
- August 29 – Horst Szymaniak, German footballer (d. 2009)
- August 30 – Anatoly Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d. 1982)
September
- September 1 – Léon Mébiame, Gabonese politician (d. 2015)
- September 2 – Chuck McCann, American actor and comedian (d. 2018)
- September 3 – Freddie King, African-American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1976)
- September 4
- September 5 – Ricardo de la Espriella, President of Panama
- September 6 – Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and writer (d. 2015)
- September 7
- September 8 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer (d. 2016)
- September 9
- September 10 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- September 11 – Ian Abercrombie, English-American actor (d. 2012)
- September 12 – Jaegwon Kim, Korean-American philosopher (d. 2019)
- September 14 – Kate Millett, American feminist writer (d. 2017)
- September 16
- September 17 – Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
- September 18 – Fred Willard, American actor and comedian (d. 2020)
- September 19 – Brian Epstein, British manager of the Beatles, co-founder of Northern Songs (d. 1967)
- September 20
- September 21
- September 23 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
- September 24 – Edgardo Angara, Filipino politician (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Jean Sorel, French actor
- September 27 – Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (d. 2020)
- September 28 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress, animal rights activist
- September 29 – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian-American psychologist (d. 2021)
- September 30 – Udo Jürgens, Austrian-Swiss composer and singer (d. 2014)
October
November
- November 1 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-born automobile executive (d. 2004)
- November 2 – Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis champion
- November 4 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (d. 2015)
- November 5
- November 9
- November 10 – Joanna Moore, American actress (d. 1997)
- November 11
- November 12 – Charles Manson, American cult leader, criminal (d. 2017)
- November 13 – Garry Marshall, American film producer, director and actor (d. 2016)
- November 14 – Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2015)
- November 17 – Jim Inhofe, American politician
- November 19 – Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
- November 20
- November 23 – Lew Hoad, Australian tennis champion (d. 1994)
- November 24 – Alfred Schnittke, Volga German composer (d. 1998)
- November 26
- November 30 – Lansana Conté, 2nd President of Guinea (d. 2008)
December
- December 1 – Billy Paul, African-American singer (d. 2016)
- December 3 – Viktor Gorbatko, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2017)
- December 4 – Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)
- December 5 – Joan Didion, American novelist (d. 2021)
- December 8 – Alisa Freindlich, Soviet and Russian actress
- December 9
- December 10 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1994)
- December 12 – Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (d. 2012)
- December 13 – Richard D. Zanuck, American producer (d. 2012)
- December 14 – Shyam Benegal, Indian film director and screenwriter
- December 15
- December 18
- December 19 – Pratibha Patil, 12th President of India
- December 22 – David Pearson, American race car driver (d. 2018)
- December 24 – Stjepan Mesić, 2nd President of Croatia
- December 25 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2018)
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995)
- December 30
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January
- January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (d. 2006)
- January 7 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2014)
- January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and actor (d. 1977)
- January 9 – Bob Denver, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
- January 10
- January 14 – Lucile Wheeler, Canadian skier
- January 15 – Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (d. 2018)
- January 16
- January 19 – Soumitra Chatterjee, Indian actor (d. 2020)
- January 20 – Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2010)
- January 22 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (d. 2019)
- January 25
- January 30
- January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
February
- February 1 – Vladimir Aksyonov, Soviet cosmonaut
- February 3 – Johnny "Guitar" Watson, African-American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1996)
- February 4 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
- February 7 – Herb Kohl, American businessman, philanthropist and politician (d. 2023)
- February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist, vocalist (d. 1971)
- February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967)
- February 16
- February 17
- February 18
- February 25 – Pepe, Brazilian footballer and manager
- February 26 – Artur Rasizade, Azerbaijani politician, 6th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan
- February 27 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (d. 2020)
March
- March 1 – Robert Conrad, American actor (d. 2020)
- March 3 – Zhelyu Zhelev, 1st President of Bulgaria (d. 2015)
- March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
- March 6 – Ron Delany, Irish athlete
- March 15 – Judd Hirsch, American actor
- March 16 – Sergei Yursky, Russian actor (d. 2019)
- March 21 – Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (d. 2004)
- March 22 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
- March 24
- March 25 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (d. 1985)
- March 27 – Julian Glover, English actor
- March 28 – Józef Szmidt, Polish athlete
- March 29 – Wolfgang Uhlmann, German chess grandmaster (d. 2020)
- March 31 – Herb Alpert, American trumpeter
April
- April 4 – Kenneth Mars, American actor (d. 2011)
- April 6
- April 7 – Bobby Bare, American country singer
- April 10
- April 13 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor (d. 2020)
- April 14 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss author
- April 16 – Bobby Vinton, American singer and songwriter
- April 19 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, pianist and composer (d. 2002)
- April 20 – Mario Camus, Spanish screenwriter and film director (d. 2021)
- April 21
- April 22
- April 25
- April 27 – Theo Angelopoulos, Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer (d. 2012)
May
- May 2
- May 8
- May 9 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
- May 10 – Larry Williams, African-American musician (d. 1980)
- May 11 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)
- May 12
- May 14 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
- May 15 – Don Bragg, American athlete (d. 2019)
- May 16
- May 20 – José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay
- May 27 – Lee Meriwether, American actress
- May 29 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
- May 30 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and dancer
- May 31 – Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
June
- June 1 – Norman Foster, English architect
- June 2
- June 3
- June 5 – Misha Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist and composer (d. 2017)
- June 6 – Grant Green, African-American jazz guitarist (d. 1979)
- June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
- June 12 – Ian Craig, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
- June 13
- June 15 – Belinda Lee, English actress (d. 1961)
- June 16 – Jim Dine, American artist
- June 19 – Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, 36th President of Ecuador
- June 21
- June 23 – György Kárpáti, Hungarian water polo player (d. 2020)
- June 24 – Terry Riley, American composer
- June 25 – Larry Kramer, American playwright, author, and activist (d. 2020)
- June 28 – John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
- June 30 – Valentino Gasparella, Italian track cyclist
July
- July 1
- July 3
- July 5 – Shevah Weiss, Israeli political scientist, politician
- July 6 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and spiritual leader of Tibet
- July 8
- July 9
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14 – Ei-ichi Negishi, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate (d. 2021)
- July 15
- July 16 – Nicolae Rotaru, Romanian sport shooter
- July 17
- July 19 – George Breen, American swimmer
- July 21 – Jeanne Arth, American Wimbledon and US Championships doubles tennis title holder
- July 22 – Ron Springett, British footballer (d. 2015)
- July 25
- July 30 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco, Moroccan prince (d. 1983)
- July 31 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (d. 2015)
August
- August 3
- August 5 – Michael Ballhaus, German cinematographer (d. 2017)
- August 6 – Mário Coluna, Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
- August 10
- August 12
- August 17
- August 18
- August 19 – Story Musgrave, American physician and astronaut
- August 20 – Ron Paul, American author, physician, and politician
- August 21
- August 22 – E. Annie Proulx, American novelist
- August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
- August 26 – Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (d. 2011)
- August 29 – William Friedkin, American film director (d. 2023)
- August 30
- August 31
September
- September 1
- September 2
- September 7 – Abdou Diouf, 2nd President of Senegal
- September 8 – William Vance, Belgian comics artist (d. 2018)
- September 9 – Chaim Topol, Israeli actor and singer (d. 2023)
- September 10 – Mary Oliver, American poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner (d. 2019)
- September 11
- September 12
- September 14
- September 15 – Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2015)
- September 16 – Carl Andre, American artist
- September 17 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
- September 18 – John Spencer, English professional snooker player (d. 2006)
- September 19 – Velasio de Paolis, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
- September 20
- September 21
- September 22 – Virgilijus Noreika, Lithuanian tenor (d. 2018)
- September 25 – Maj Sjöwall, Swedish writer (d. 2020)
- September 26 – Victor Chizhikov, Russian book illustrator (d. 2020)
- September 28 – Simon Leys, Belgian-Australian diplomat and author (d. 2014)
- September 29
- September 30 – Johnny Mathis, African-American singer and songwriter
October
- October 1 – Julie Andrews, English singer and actress
- October 2
- October 3
- October 5 – Tarcísio Meira, Brazilian actor (d. 2021)
- October 6
- October 9 – Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- October 12
- October 14 – La Monte Young, American composer
- October 15
- October 18 – Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
- October 19 – Agne Simonsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2020)
- October 20
- October 21 – Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)
- October 25 – Rusty Schweickart, American astronaut
- October 27 – Mauricio de Sousa, Brazilian cartoonist
- October 29 – Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
- October 30
- October 31
November
- November 1
- November 3 – Abune Paulos, Ethiopian patriarch (d. 2012)
- November 4 – Laila Sari, Indonesian comedian, singer (d. 2017)
- November 6 – Archduchess Maria of Austria, German-Austrian royal (d. 2018)
- November 8
- November 9 – Bob Gibson, African-American professional baseball player (d. 2020)
- November 11 – Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
- November 13
- November 14 – King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
- November 15
- November 16 – France-Albert René, Seychellois politician (d. 2019)
- November 17 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (d. 2009)
- November 18 – Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, Indian nobleman, politician (d. 2018)
- November 19 – Jack Welch, American businessman, engineer and writer (d. 2020)
- November 20
- November 22 – Ludmila Belousova, Russian pair skater (d. 2017)
- November 23
- November 24
- November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
- November 29 – Diane Ladd, American actress
- November 30
December
- December 1
- December 3 – Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician (d. 2023)
- December 4 – Paul H. O'Neill, American politician (d. 2020)
- December 5 – Yury Vlasov, Russian writer and weightlifter (d. 2021)
- December 7 – Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer, and composer (d. 2020)
- December 8
- December 10 – Jaromil Jireš, Czechoslovak filmmaker (d. 2001)
- December 11
- December 14
- December 15 – Adnan Badran, Prime Minister of Jordan
- December 17 – George Lindsey, American actor and comedian (d. 2012)
- December 18 – Rosemary Leach, English actress (d. 2017)
- December 19 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
- December 21
- December 23 – Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
- December 25 – Sadiq al-Mahdi, 7th Prime Minister of Sudan (d. 2020)
- December 26 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 5th President of Togo (d. 2005)
- December 30
- December 31 – King Salman of Saudi Arabia
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January
- January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992)
- January 6
- January 8 – Robert May, Australian scientist (d. 2020)
- January 10
- January 11 – Eva Hesse, American artist (d. 1970)
- January 12 – Émile Lahoud, 15th President of Lebanon
- January 13 – Renato Bruson, Italian baritone
- January 14 – Reiner Klimke, German equestrian (d. 1999)
- January 19 – Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
- January 22
- January 23 – Arlene Golonka, American actress (d. 2021)
- January 25 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
- January 27
- January 28
February
- February 3 – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer
- February 4 – David Brenner, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
- February 6 – Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player, coach (d. 2009)
- February 9 – Clive Swift, English actor (d. 2019)
- February 11 – Burt Reynolds, American actor, director and producer (d. 2018)
- February 12 – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist (d. 2012)
- February 14
- February 16 – Carl Icahn, American businessman, investor and philanthropist
- February 17 – Jim Brown, African-American football player and actor (d. 2023)
- February 21 – Barbara Jordan, African-American lawyer, educator, politician and civil rights activist (d. 1996)
- February 22 – J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist
- February 23 – Federico Luppi, Argentine-Spanish actor (d. 2017)
- February 26 – Adem Demaçi, Albanian politician, writer (d. 2018)
- February 27 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
- February 29
March
- March 1 – Renato Corti, Italian cardinal (d. 2020)
- March 4
- March 5
- March 6
- March 7
- March 8 – Red West, American actor, film stuntman, and songwriter (d. 2017)
- March 9 – Mickey Gilley, American country singer (d. 2022)
- March 10 – Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA
- March 11
- March 16 – Raymond Damadian, American physician, medical practitioner and inventor (d. 2022)
- March 17 – Ken Mattingly, American astronaut (d. 2023)
- March 18 – F. W. de Klerk, 10th President of South Africa (d. 2021)
- March 19
- March 20 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician (d. 2021)
- March 21 – Seyyed Mehdi Tabatabaei, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
- March 24 – David Suzuki, Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist
- March 27 – Banwari Lal Joshi, Indian politician (d. 2017)
- March 28 – Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, essayist and Nobel Prize laureate
- March 29 – Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, screenwriter, and politician (d. 2018)
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Abdelhamid Brahimi, 3rd Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 2021)
- April 9
- April 10 – John Madden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2021)
- April 12 – Charles Napier, American actor (d. 2011)
- April 14
- April 15
- April 19 – Wilfried Martens, 44th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
- April 20
- April 22 – Glen Campbell, American singer and actor (d. 2017)
- April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer, songwriter (d. 1988)
- April 24
- April 28 – Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician (d. 2015)
- April 29
May
- May 1 – Danièle Huillet, French filmmaker (d. 2006)
- May 2
- May 3 – José Torres, Puerto Rican professional boxer (d. 2009)
- May 4 – El Cordobés, Spanish matador
- May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, 5th President of Vietnam
- May 7 – Jimmy Ruffin, African-American singer (d. 2014)
- May 9
- May 12
- May 14 – Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor (d. 1973)
- May 16 – Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal (d. 2018)
- May 17 – Dennis Hopper, American actor and director (d. 2010)
- May 20 – Nickey Iyambo, Namibian politician, 1st Vice-President of Namibia (d. 2019)
- May 21
- May 23 – Charles Kimbrough, American actor (d. 2023)
- May 25 – Tom T. Hall, American country singer (d. 2021)
- May 27 – Louis Gossett Jr., African-American actor
June
- June 2 – Volodymyr Holubnychy, Soviet Olympic athlete (d. 2021)
- June 3
- June 4
- June 8
- June 15
- June 17 – Ken Loach, British film director
- June 18 – Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (d. 1992)
- June 19 – Takeshi Aono, Japanese actor (d. 2012)
- June 22
- June 23 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician, 78th Prime Minister of Greece
- June 24 – Robert Downey Sr., American actor, film director and producer (d. 2021)
- June 25 – B. J. Habibie, Indonesian politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (d. 2019)
- June 26
- June 27
- June 28 – Leon O. Chua, American electrical engineer and computer scientist
- June 29
- June 30
July
August
- August 1
- August 5 – John Saxon, American actor (d. 2020)
- August 6 – Dražan Jerković, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 2008)
- August 12
- August 13 – Vyjayanthimala, Indian actress, dancer, singer, dance choreographer and parliamentarian
- August 16 – Alan Hodgkinson, English professional footballer and coach (d. 2015)
- August 17
- August 18
- August 20
- August 21
- August 26 – Benedict Anderson, American academic (d. 2015)
- August 27 – Lien Chan, Taiwanese politician
- August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018)
September
- September 1 – Valery Legasov, Soviet inorganic chemist (d. 1988)
- September 2 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American businessman, engineer and author (d. 2016)
- September 3 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (d. 2019)
- September 4 – Kamuta Latasi, 4th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
- September 5 – Alcee Hastings, African-American politician (d. 2021)
- September 7
- September 11 – Charles Dierkop, American actor
- September 13 – Joe E. Tata, American actor (d. 2022)
- September 14 – Walter Koenig, American actor (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- September 15 – Ashley Cooper, Australian tennis player (d. 2020)
- September 19 – Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
- September 20 – Salvador Reyes Monteon, Mexican footballer (d. 2012)
- September 21 – Yury Luzhkov, Russian politician (d. 2019)
- September 22 – Art Metrano, American actor and comedian (d. 2021)
- September 23 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Perú (d. 2006)
- September 24 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (The Muppets) (d. 1990)
- September 25
- September 26 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2018)
- September 27
- September 28 – Robert Wolders, Dutch actor (d. 2018)
- September 29 – Silvio Berlusconi, 50th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2023)
October
- October 1 – Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
- October 3 – Steve Reich, American composer
- October 5 – Václav Havel, 10th President of Czechoslovakia and 1st President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
- October 6 – Lin Yu-lin, Taiwanese billionaire real estate developer (d. 2018)
- October 7 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian entertainer (d. 1992)
- October 8 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (d. 2018)
- October 9 – Brian Blessed, English actor
- October 10 – Gerhard Ertl, German physicist, Nobel laureate
- October 11 – C. Gordon Fullerton, American astronaut (d. 2013)
- October 13
- October 18 – Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal (d. 2019)
- October 19 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
- October 22 – Bobby Seale, American political activist
- October 24
- October 26 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (d. 2019)
- October 28
- October 30 – Polina Astakhova, Soviet artistic gymnast (d. 2005)
- October 31 – Michael Landon, American actor, director, producer and writer (d. 1991)
November
- November 3 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- November 4 – Didier Ratsiraka, 3rd President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
- November 5
- November 8
- November 9
- November 11 – Susan Kohner, American actress
- November 15 – Wolf Biermann, German singer, songwriter and former East German dissident
- November 16 – Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Spanish-Vatican academic, journalist and physician (d. 2017)
- November 17
- November 18 – Don Cherry, African-American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
- November 19
- November 20 – Don DeLillo, American author
- November 23 – Steve Landesberg, American actor, director (d. 2010)
- November 28 – Gary Hart, American politician, diplomat, and lawyer
- November 30 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
December
- December 4 – Freddy Cannon, American singer
- December 5 – James Lee Burke, American author
- December 6 – Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
- December 7 – Martha Layne Collins, American businesswoman and politician
- December 8 – David Carradine, American actor, director and martial artist (d. 2009)
- December 9 – A. B. Yehoshua, Israeli writer (d. 2022)
- December 11 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch politician and diplomat
- December 12
- December 14 – Robert A. Parker, American physicist, astronomer, and astronaut
- December 15 – Joe D'Amato, Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
- December 17
- December 20 – Niki Bettendorf, Luxembourgian politician (d. 2018)
- December 22
- December 23
- December 25
- December 28 – Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
- December 29 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer and diabetes awareness activist (d. 2017)
- December 31 – Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer
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January
- January 1 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian imam and politician (d. 2004)
- January 2 – Martin Lauer, German athlete (d. 2019)
- January 3 – Glen A. Larson, American TV producer and writer (d. 2014)
- January 4
- January 6
- January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer ("Goldfinger")
- January 11 – Felix Silla, Italian actor (d. 2021)
- January 12 – Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
- January 13 – Ati George Sokomanu, 1st President of Vanuatu
- January 14
- January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American actress
- January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
- January 18
- January 19 – Princess Birgitta of Sweden
- January 20 – Bailey Howell, American basketball player
- January 21 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House
- January 22 – Joseph Wambaugh, American author
- January 25
- January 26 – Joseph Saidu Momoh, 2 President of Sierra Leone (d. 2003)
- January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (d. 1989)
- January 29 – Hassan Habibi, 1st Vice President of Iran (d. 2013)
- January 30
- January 31
February
- February 1
- February 2 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
- February 3
- February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete
- February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete
- February 7 – Svante Thuresson, Swedish jazz musician (d. 2021)
- February 8 – Harry Wu, Chinese-American human rights activist (d. 2016)
- February 10 – Roberta Flack, African-American singer
- February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
- February 13
- February 17
- February 19 – David Margulies, American actor (d. 2016)
- February 20
- February 21
- February 25 – Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
- February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
March
- March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (d. 2021)
- March 3
- March 4 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
- March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, 5th and 12th President of Nigeria
- March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
- March 7 – Sidney Coleman, American theoretical physicist (d. 2007)
- March 8 – Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
- March 10 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
- March 11 – Jovan Divjak, Bosnian army general (d. 2021)
- March 13 – Vladimir Makanin, Russian writer (d. 2017)
- March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962)
- March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015)
- March 16
- March 18 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist (d. 2016)
- March 19 – Egon Krenz, German politician
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados
- March 25 – Tom Monaghan, American entrepreneur
- March 26 – Barbara Jones, American athlete
- March 27 – Francesco Janich, Italian footballer (d. 2019)
- March 29 – Smarck Michel, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
- March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director
April
- April 1 – Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Indian politician, 12th Vice President of India
- April 3 – Louis Satterfield, African-American musician (d. 2004)
- April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
- April 5
- April 6
- April 8 – Seymour Hersh, American journalist and writer
- April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
- April 11 – Duane Jones, African-American actor (d. 1988)
- April 12
- April 13
- April 15 – Frank Vincent, American actor (d. 2017)
- April 16 – George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2017)
- April 17 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian engineer, business magnate (d. 2019)
- April 18
- April 19
- April 20 – George Takei, Japanese-American actor, director and author (Star Trek)
- April 22
- April 24 – Joe Henderson, African-American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
- April 26
- April 27 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
- April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
May
- May 1 – Una Stubbs, English actress (d. 2021)
- May 2 – Lorenzo Music, American actor, writer, producer and musician (d. 2001)
- May 4
- May 6 – Rubin Carter, African-American boxer (d. 2014)
- May 8 – Thomas Pynchon, American writer
- May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
- May 10 – Tamara Press, Ukrainian athlete (d. 2021)
- May 11 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
- May 12 – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian (d. 2008)
- May 13
- May 15
- May 16
- May 18
- May 21
- May 22
- May 30 – Aleksandr Demyanenko, Russian actor (d. 1999)
June
- June 1
- June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress (d. 2022)
- June 4
- June 7 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
- June 8 – Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
- June 10
- June 11
- June 12 – Vladimir Arnold, Soviet and Russian mathematician (d. 2010)
- June 13
- June 14 – Jorgen Leth, Danish poet and film director
- June 15 – Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
- June 16
- June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer (d. 2009)
- June 18
- June 19 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher, author (d. 2015)
- June 21 – Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2018)
- June 22 – Chris Blackwell, English businessman
- June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland (d. 2023)
- June 25
- June 26
- June 27 – Joseph P. Allen, American astronaut
- June 28 – Richard Bright, American actor (d. 2006)
July
- July 2
- July 3 – Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter
- July 4
- July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
- July 6
- July 7
- July 9 – David Hockney, English-born artist
- July 11 – Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer
- July 12
- July 14 – Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
- July 16 – Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20 – Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
- July 22
- July 24 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor and director
- July 25 – Colin Renfrew, British archeologist
- July 26 – Peter Fleischmann, German film director and screenwriter (d. 2021)
- July 27
- July 28 – Francis Veber, French film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright
- July 29
- July 30 – Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi diplomat and politician
- July 31
August
- August 3
- August 5
- August 6
- August 8
- August 10 – Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (d. 2000)
- August 11 – Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (d. 2018)
- August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith, 14th Prime Minister, 6th President of Laos
- August 18 – Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician, former Prime Minister
- August 19 – Richard Møller Nielsen, Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
- August 21
- August 22
- August 26 – Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010)
- August 27 – Alice Coltrane, African-American jazz harpist, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007)
- August 30 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand founder of McLaren Racing (d. 1970)
September
- September 1 – Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portuguese politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal
- September 2 – Derek Fowlds, English actor (d. 2020)
- September 4 – Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
- September 5 – Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Italian-Argentinian footballer (d. 2018)
- September 6
- September 7 – John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
- September 10 – Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author
- September 11
- September 12 – George Chuvalo, Canadian professional wrestler
- September 13 – Don Bluth, American animator, film director, producer, writer and video game designer
- September 14 – Renzo Piano, Italian architect
- September 15
- September 16 – Aleksandr Medved, Soviet wrestler
- September 17 – Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican professional baseball player
- September 20 – Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2005)
- September 22 – Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (d. 1987)
- September 23 – Martin Litchfield West, British classical scholar (d. 2015)
- September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer and talent agent (d. 2015)
- September 28
- September 30
October
- October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, African-American attorney (d. 2005)
- October 4
- October 11
- October 12 – Robert Mangold, American artist
- October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
- October 17 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor (d. 2023)
- October 19 – Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 2006)
- October 20
- October 21 – Édith Scob, French actress (d. 2019)
- October 22 – Kader Khan, Indian-Canadian actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director (d. 2018)
- October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, African-American basketball player, coach
- October 30
- October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer, songwriter
November
- November 1 – Bill Anderson, American country singer and TV personality
- November 4 – Loretta Swit, American actress (M*A*S*H)
- November 5 – Harris Yulin, American actor
- November 8 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
- November 9 – Roger McGough, English poet and playwright
- November 10 – Albert Hall, American actor
- November 12
- November 14 – Vittorio Adorni, Italian cyclist (d. 2022)
- November 15 – Little Willie John, African-American R&B singer (d. 1968)
- November 17 – Peter Cook, English comedian, writer and actor (d. 1995)
- November 20 – Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013)
- November 21
- November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994)
- November 27 – Rodney Bewes, English actor (d. 2017)
- November 29 – Johan Jørgen Holst, Norwegian politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
- November 30 – Ridley Scott, British film director, producer
December
- December 1 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
- December 3
- December 4
- December 6 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-Uruguayan footballer (d. 2006)
- December 7 – Thad Cochran, American politician (d. 2019)
- December 8 – James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
- December 11 – Jim Harrison, American poet, novelist and essayist (d. 2016)
- December 12 – Connie Francis, American singer and actress
- December 17
- December 18 – Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018)
- December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
- December 22
- December 23 – Karol J. Bobko, American astronaut (d. 2023)
- December 24 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
- December 26 – John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician (d. 2020)
- December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
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January
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3 – Jaswant Singh, Indian politician (d. 2020)
- January 4 – Mohamed Rahmat, Malaysian politician (d. 2010)
- January 5 – King Juan Carlos I of Spain
- January 6
- January 7
- January 8 – Yevgeny Nesterenko, Russian operatic singer (d. 2021)
- January 10
- January 11 – Fischer Black, American economist (d. 1995)
- January 13
- January 14
- January 16
- January 17 – David Theile, Australian swimmer
- January 18 – Anthony Giddens, British sociologist
- January 20 – Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
- January 21 – Wolfman Jack, American disc jockey (d. 1995)
- January 23
- January 25
- January 28
- January 29 – Shuji Tsurumi, Japanese men's artistic gymnast
- January 30 – Islam Karimov, President of Uzbekistan (d. 2016)
- January 31 – Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
February
- February 1 – Sherman Hemsley, African-American comedian, actor (d. 2012)
- February 2 – Bo Hopkins, American actor (d. 2022)
- February 3
- February 4 – Isao Inokuma, Japanese athlete (d. 2001)
- February 10 – Judith Rich Harris, American author and researcher (d. 2018)
- February 11 – Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian Olympic athlete
- February 12
- February 13 – Oliver Reed, English actor (d. 1999)
- February 16 – Barry Primus, American actor, director, and writer
- February 18
- February 21 – Lester Bird, 2nd Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 2021)
- February 22
- February 23
- February 24
- February 25 – Herb Elliott, Australian athlete
March
- March 1 – Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi, Samoa political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of Samoa and O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa
- March 2 – Ricardo Lagos, 32nd President of Chile
- March 4
- March 5
- March 7
- March 9 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer and actress (d. 2018)
- March 14
- March 16 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentine footballer and manager
- March 17
- March 18
- March 20 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician
- March 21 – Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
- March 24
- March 26
- March 30 – Klaus Schwab, German economist, founder of the World Economic Forum
- March 31 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (d. 2019)
April
- April 1 – John Quade, American actor (d. 2009)
- April 3 – Jeff Barry, American singer and songwriter
- April 6
- April 7
- April 8 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2018)
- April 9 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
- April 11 – Kurt Moll, German bass singer (d. 2017)
- April 13 – Frederic Rzewski, American composer (d. 2021)
- April 15 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress
- April 16 – Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (d. 1993)
- April 17 – Kerry Wendell Thornley, American writer (d. 1998)
- April 18 – Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 22 – Issey Miyake, Japanese fashion designer (d. 2022)
- April 26
- April 28 – Madge Sinclair, Jamaican-American actress (d. 1995)
- April 29 – Bernie Madoff, American fraudster and financier (d. 2021)
- April 30
May
- May 2 – King Moshoeshoe II (d. 1996)
- May 3 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian convicted terrorist (d. 2017)
- May 4 – Tyrone Davis, American blues musician (d. 2005)
- May 5
- May 8
- May 9 – Charles Simic, Serbian-American poet
- May 10
- May 12
- May 13 – Giuliano Amato, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
- May 15 – Mireille Darc, French actress and model (d. 2017)
- May 16 – Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist
- May 17 – Jason Bernard, African-American actor (d. 1996)
- May 19 – Girish Karnad, Indian actor, screenwriter and playwright (d. 2019)
- May 20
- May 22
- May 24
- May 26
- May 28 – Jerry West, American basketball player and executive
- May 31
June
July
- July 1 – Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian classical flutist
- July 2
- July 4 – Bill Withers, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2020)
- July 6 – Luana Patten, American actress (d. 1996)
- July 7 – Jan Assmann, German Egyptologist
- July 9
- July 10
- July 12 – Wieger Mensonides, Dutch swimmer
- July 14 – Moshe Safdie, Israeli-Canadian architect
- July 15 – Enrique Figuerola, Cuban sprinter
- July 18
- July 19 – Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
- July 20
- July 21 – Janet Reno, American lawyer, U.S. Attorney General (d. 2016)
- July 22 – Terence Stamp, English actor
- July 23
- July 24
- July 27 – Gary Gygax, American author, game designer (d. 2008)
- July 28
- July 29 – Peter Jennings, Canadian journalist (d. 2005)
- July 30 – Michael Bell, American actor and activist
August
September
- September 1
- September 2 – Giuliano Gemma, Italian actor (d. 2013)
- September 3 – Ryōji Noyori, Japanese Chemist
- September 4 – Leonard Frey, American actor (d. 1988)
- September 6 – Dennis Oppenheim, American artist (d. 2011)
- September 8 – Sam Nunn, American politician
- September 10 – Tomasi Puapua, Tuvaluan politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Tuvalu and 6th Governor-General of Tuvalu
- September 12 – Tatiana Troyanos, American mezzo-soprano (d. 1993)
- September 13 – John Smith, Scottish politician (d. 1994)
- September 17 – Paul Benedict, American actor (d. 2008)
- September 20 – Eric Gale, American jazz musician (d. 1994)
- September 23
- September 25
- September 26 – Andrey Lukanov, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1996)
- September 28
- September 29 – Wim Kok, Dutch politician, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
October
- October 1 – Stella Stevens, American actress, model (d. 2023)
- October 2 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor and film director (d. 1983)
- October 3
- October 4 – Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- October 5 – Teresa Heinz, Portuguese-American businesswoman and philanthropist
- October 7
- October 8
- October 9 – Heinz Fischer, Austrian politician
- October 10 – Daidō Moriyama, Japanese photographer
- October 11 – Darrall Imhoff, American professional basketball player (d. 2017)
- October 12 – Geoff Murphy, New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
- October 14
- October 15 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician, activist (d. 1997)
- October 16 – Nico, German-American singer (d. 1988)
- October 17
- October 18 – Dawn Wells, American actress (d. 2020)
- October 22
- October 23 – John Heinz, American politician (d. 1991)
- October 25 – Bob Webster, American diver
- October 28
- October 29
- October 30
November
- November 2
- November 3
- November 5
- November 8 – Satch Sanders, African-American basketball player
- November 11 – Ants Antson, Estonian speed skater (d. 2015)
- November 12 – Benjamin Mkapa, 3rd President of Tanzania (d. 2020)
- November 13 – Jean Seberg, American actress (d. 1979)
- November 16 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
- November 17 – Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk singer (d. 2023)
- November 18
- November 19 – Ted Turner, American entrepreneur
- November 21 – Helen, Indian actress and dancer
- November 22 – John du Pont, American philanthropist, and convicted murderer
- November 24
- November 26 – Porter J. Goss, American politician, Central Intelligence Agency director
- November 28 – Tom Regan, American philosopher (d. 2017)
- November 30
December
- December 2 – Luis Artime, Argentine footballer
- December 5 – J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
- December 6 – Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
- December 8 – John Kufuor, President of Ghana
- December 10 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor (d. 2023)
- December 11
- December 13 – Heino, German singer
- December 15
- December 16 – Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and film director
- December 17 – Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete (d. 2019)
- December 18 – Roger E. Mosley, African-American actor (d. 2022)
- December 21 – Shi Pei Pu, Chinese opera singer (d. 2009)
- December 23 – Bob Kahn, American Internet pioneer
- December 24 – Philippe Nahon, French actor (d. 2020)
- December 28 – Lagumot Harris, Nauruan politician, President (d. 1999)
- December 29 – Jon Voight, American actor
- December 31
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January
- January 1
- January 3
- January 4 – Veniamin Soldatenko, Russian athlete (d. 2023)
- January 6
- January 9 – Susannah York, English actress (d. 2011)
- January 10
- January 11 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian Canadian skier
- January 15 – Per Ahlmark, Swedish politician, writer (d. 2018)
- January 17
- January 18 – Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese swimmer (d. 2017)
- January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (d. 2014)
- January 20
- January 22
- January 24 – Ray Stevens, American musician
- January 25 – Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 2003)
- January 28 – John M. Fabian, American astronaut
- January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer
- January 31 – Jerry Brudos, American serial killer (d. 2006)
February
- February 1
- February 2 – Dale T. Mortensen, American Nobel economist (d. 2014)
- February 3 – Michael Cimino, American film director (d. 2016)
- February 6 – Mike Farrell, American actor
- February 8 – Egon Zimmermann, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (d. 2019)
- February 9
- February 10
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13
- February 15
- February 16 – Czesław Niemen, Polish singer-songwriter, rock balladeer (d. 2004)
- February 18 – Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh, Jordanian political figure, 65th Prime Minister of Jordan
- February 24 – Marisa Mell, Austrian actress (d. 1992)
- February 27
- February 28 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born American physicist
March
- March 1
- Leo Brouwer, Cuban composer, conductor, and guitarist
- Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (d. 2017)
- March 2 – Takako, Princess Suga
- March 5
- March 6 – Kit Bond, American politician
- March 8
- March 10 – Lee Soo-sung, 27th Prime Minister of South Korea
- March 13 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter
- March 14
- March 15 – Ted Kaufman, American politician
- March 17 – Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager
- March 20 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada
- March 25 – D. C. Fontana, American television writer (d. 2019)
- March 27 – Cale Yarborough, American racing driver (d. 2023)
- March 29 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
- March 31
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (d. 1984)
- April 4
- April 5 – David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director (d. 2019)
- April 6 – John Sculley, American businessman, entrepreneur and investor
- April 7
- April 9 – Michael Learned, American actress
- April 10 – Claudio Magris, Italian author
- April 11 – Louise Lasser, American actress
- April 12 – Alan Ayckbourn, English dramatist
- April 13
- April 15 – Jaime Paz Zamora, 73rd President of Bolivia
- April 16 – Dusty Springfield, English pop singer (d. 1999)
- April 19 – Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
- April 20 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian politician, 1st female Prime Minister
- April 21 – Helen Prejean, American writer
- April 22 – Jason Miller, American playwright, actor (d. 2001)
- April 23 – Lee Majors, American actor
- April 24 – Ernst Zündel, German publisher and pamphleteer (d. 2017)
- April 27
- April 30 – Pieter van Vollenhoven, Dutch professor
May
- May 1 – Judy Collins, American singer, songwriter
- May 2
- May 4
- May 7
- May 8 – Paul Drayton, American Olympic athlete (d. 2010)
- May 9
- May 13 – Harvey Keitel, American actor
- May 14 – Veruschka von Lehndorff, German model, actress and artist
- May 15 – Barbara Hammer, American filmmaker (d. 2019)
- May 18
- May 19
- May 20 – Roman Kartsev, Russian actor (d. 2018)
- May 21
- May 22 – Paul Winfield, African-American actor (d. 2004)
- May 23 – Reinhard Hauff, German film director
- May 25
- May 27 – Don Williams, American musician (d. 2017)
- May 28
- May 29 – Al Unser, American race car driver (d. 2021)
- May 30 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor (d. 2019)
June
- June 1 – Cleavon Little, African-American actor (d. 1992)
- June 3 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American writer (d. 2007)
- June 5
- June 6 – Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (d. 2021)
- June 8 – Bernie Casey, African-American football player and actor (d. 2017)
- June 9 – Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano
- June 11 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver
- June 13 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician (d. 2021)
- June 14 – Steny Hoyer, American politician
- June 15 – Brian Jacques, British writer (d. 2011)
- June 18 – Lou Brock, African-American professional baseball player (d. 2020)
- June 19 – John F. MacArthur, American pastor
- June 21 – Charles Jencks, American cultural theorist (d. 2019)
- June 22 – Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer
- June 24
- June 26 – Osvaldo Hurtado, 34th President of Ecuador
- June 29 – Sante Gaiardoni, Italian cyclist (d. 2023)
- June 30
July
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3 – Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian road bicycle racer
- July 4
- July 6
- July 7 – Elena Obraztsova, Russian opera singer (d. 2015)
- July 8
- July 10 – Mavis Staples, African-American rhythm and blues, gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist
- July 13 – John Danielsen, Danish football midfielder
- July 14
- July 15
- July 16
- July 17
- July 18
- July 21
- July 22 – Gila Almagor, Israeli actress and author
- July 24 – Walt Bellamy, African-American basketball player (d. 2013)
- July 26 – John Howard, 25th Prime Minister of Australia
- July 27 – William Eggleston, American photographer
- July 28 – Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor, comedian, and director (d. 2017)
- July 29 – Amarildo, Brazilian footballer
- July 30 – Peter Bogdanovich, American film director, actor and writer (d. 2022)
- July 31 – Susan Flannery, American actress
August
September
- September 1 – Lily Tomlin, American actress
- September 2 – Henry Mintzberg, Canadian academic and author
- September 5
- September 6 – David Allan Coe, American country singer, songwriter and musician
- September 7
- September 9 – Reuven Rivlin, 10th President of Israel
- September 10 – Cynthia Lennon, English writer, first wife of English musician (Beatle) John Lennon (d. 2015)
- September 11 – Charles Geschke, American inventor and businessman (d. 2021)
- September 12 – Henry Waxman, American politician
- September 13
- September 16 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer, painter
- September 17
- September 18 – Jorge Sampaio, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2021)
- September 19 – Babben Enger-Damon, Norwegian cross-country skier
- September 20 – Michu Meszaros, Hungarian-born American actor (ALF) (d. 2016)
- September 22 – Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer (d. 2016)
- September 23 – Janusz Gajos, Polish actor
- September 24
- September 25 – Leon Brittan, British politician (d. 2015)
- September 28 – Rudolph Walker, Trinidadian actor
- September 29
- September 30
October
- October 2 – Yuri Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2008)
- October 4 – Ivan Mauger, New Zealand speedway rider (d. 2018)
- October 5
- October 6 – Melvyn Bragg, English media arts presenter, critic and novelist
- October 7
- October 8 – Paul Hogan, Australian actor and comedian
- October 9 – John Pilger, Australian-born journalist (d. 2023)
- October 11 – Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (d. 2018)
- October 12 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (d. 2019)
- October 13 – Melinda Dillon, American actress (d. 2023)
- October 14 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer
- October 16
- October 18
- October 22
- October 24 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
- October 25 – Dave Simmonds, British road racer (d. 1972)
- October 26 – Karel Schoeman, South African novelist (d. 2017)
- October 27
- October 28
- October 29 – Malay Roy Choudhury, Bengali poet, and novelist (d. 2023)
- October 30
- October 31
November
- November 1 – Barbara Bosson, American actress (d. 2023)
- November 2 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
- November 8
- November 9 – Paul Cameron, American psychologist
- November 10 – Russell Means, Native-American actor and activist (d. 2012)
- November 14 – Wendy Carlos, American electronic composer
- November 15
- November 18
- November 19
- November 21
- November 23 – Betty Everett, African-American soul singer, pianist (d. 2001)
- November 25 – Shelagh Delaney, English dramatist (d. 2011)
- November 26
- November 27
- November 30 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese dwarf, world's shortest man (d. 2015)
December
- December 1 – Lee Trevino, American professional golfer
- December 2 – Harry Reid, American politician (d. 2021)
- December 8
- December 11 – Tom Hayden, American academic, activist and politician (d. 2016)
- December 13 – Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
- December 14 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d. 1963)
- December 15 – Cindy Birdsong, American singer
- December 16 – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (d. 2012)
- December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
- December 18
- December 20 – Kathryn Joosten, American actress (d. 2012)
- December 21 – Carlos do Carmo, Portuguese singer (d. 2021)
- December 23 – La Lupe, Cuban singer (d. 1992)
- December 24 – Dean Corll, American serial killer, rapist, kidnapper and torturer (d. 1973)
- December 25 – Bob James, American musician
- December 26 – Phil Spector, American record producer (d. 2021)
- December 27 – John Amos, African-American actor
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January
- January 2
- January 3 – Thelma Schoonmaker, Algerian-born American film editor
- January 4
- January 6 – Van McCoy, African-American musician and songwriter (d. 1979)
- January 9 – Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rican politician, lawyer, economist, and businessman
- January 13 – Edmund White, American author
- January 14 – Julian Bond, African-American civil rights activist (d. 2015)
- January 16 – Franz Müntefering, German politician
- January 17
- January 18 – Pedro Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1971)
- January 19 – Paolo Borsellino, Italian judge and magistrate (d. 1992)
- January 20
- January 21 – Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
- January 22 – John Hurt, English actor (d. 2017)
- January 23 – Jimmy Castor, African-American funk, R&B, and soul saxophonist (d. 2012)
- January 24
- January 27
- January 28 – Carlos Slim, Mexican businessman
- January 29
- January 31 – Stuart Margolin, American actor (d. 2022)
February
- February 2 – David Jason, English actor
- February 4 – George A. Romero, American film writer, director (d. 2017)
- February 5 – H. R. Giger, Swiss artist (d. 2014)
- February 6 – Tom Brokaw, American television journalist and author
- February 7
- February 8 – Ted Koppel, American journalist
- February 9
- February 12 – Richard Lynch, American actor (d. 2012)
- February 15 – Hamzah Haz, Indonesian politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
- February 17
- February 18 – Fabrizio De André, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 1999)
- February 19 – Smokey Robinson, African-American musician
- February 20 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer (d. 2021)
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019)
- February 24
- February 25
- February 27
- February 28
- February 29 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople
March
- March 1 – David Broome, Welsh Show Jumper
- March 2 – Billy McNeill, Scottish football player and manager (d. 2019)
- March 4 – Vladimir Morosov, Soviet athlete
- March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- March 7
- March 9 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1994)
- March 10 – Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist
- March 11 – Alberto Cortez, Argentine singer and songwriter (d. 2019)
- March 12 – Al Jarreau, African-American singer (d. 2017)
- March 13 – Candi Staton, American singer
- March 15 – Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
- March 21 – Solomon Burke, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2010)
- March 22 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian actor (d. 1996)
- March 25
- March 26
- March 27 – Austin Pendleton, American actor, playwright, theatre director and instructor
- March 28 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and coach (d. 2013)
- March 29 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian-born singer (d. 2023)
- March 30 – Jerry Lucas, American professional basketball player
- March 31
April
- April 1 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2011)
- April 2 – Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (d. 1981)
- April 4 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (d. 2018)
- April 6 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor (d. 2011)
- April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
- April 12
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark
- April 17 – Padma Sachdev, Indian poet and novelist (d. 2021)
- April 18
- April 19 – Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (d. 2019)
- April 20
- April 22 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (d. 2019)
- April 23 – Danilo Astori, Uruguayan politician, 15th Vice President of Uruguay (d. 2023)
- April 24
- April 25 – Al Pacino, American actor, film director
- April 26 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian film composer
- April 29 – Peter Diamond, American economist
- April 30
May
- May 2 – Manuel Esquivel, 2nd Prime Minister of Belize (d. 2022)
- May 3
- May 4 – Robin Cook, American physician and novelist
- May 5 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
- May 7 – Angela Carter, English author, editor (d. 1992)
- May 8
- May 9 – James L. Brooks, American film producer, writer
- May 10
- May 12 – Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
- May 13
- May 14 – Tommy Lawrence, Scottish professional footballer (d. 2018)
- May 15
- May 16 – Ole Ernst, Danish actor (d. 2013)
- May 17 – Alan Kay, American computer scientist
- May 19
- May 20
- May 21 – Tony Sheridan, British singer, songwriter, and musician (d. 2013)
- May 22 – Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (d. 2011)
- May 24
- May 26 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (d. 2012)
- May 27 – Sotsha Dlamini, 5th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
- May 29 – Farooq Leghari, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
June
July
- July 1 – Craig Brown, Scottish former professional football player, manager (d. 2023)
- July 2 – Georgi Ivanov, Bulgarian cosmonaut
- July 3
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7 – Ringo Starr, English musician and drummer
- July 9 – Jair da Costa, Brazilian footballer
- July 10 – Helen Donath, American soprano
- July 13 – Sir Patrick Stewart, English actor
- July 17 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (d. 2019)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20 – Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter (d. 2020)
- July 21 – Jim Clyburn, African-American politician
- July 22
- July 24
- July 26
- July 27
- July 28 – Philip Proctor, American actor
- July 30 – Clive Sinclair, English inventor (d. 2021)
August
September
- September 1 – Annie Ernaux, French writer
- September 3
- September 5 – Raquel Welch, American actress (d. 2023)
- September 6 – Elwyn Berlekamp, American mathematician (d. 2019)
- September 7
- September 10 – Roy Ayers, African-American musician, songwriter
- September 11
- September 12
- September 13 – Óscar Arias, 2-time President of Costa Rica, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- September 14 – Larry Brown, American basketball player, coach
- September 15
- September 17 – Jan Eliasson, Swedish diplomat
- September 18 – Frankie Avalon, American singer, actor
- September 19
- September 20
- September 22 – Anna Karina, Danish-French actress, director, writer, and singer (d. 2019)
- September 23
- September 25 – Tim Severin, British explorer, historian and writer (d. 2020)
- September 27 – Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
- September 28 – Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Russian cosmonaut
- September 29 – Nicola Di Bari, Italian singer and actor
October
- October 1 – Jean-Luc Bideau, Swiss actor
- October 2 – Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player (d. 2015)
- October 3 – Mike Troy, American swimmer (d. 2019)
- October 4 – Silvio Marzolini, Argentine professional footballer (d. 2020)
- October 5 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (d. 2018)
- October 9 – John Lennon, English musician, singer (The Beatles) (d. 1980)
- October 13 – Pharoah Sanders, American saxophonist (d. 2022)
- October 14 – Cliff Richard, British pop musician, actor and philanthropist
- October 15 – Peter C. Doherty, Australian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- October 16
- October 18 – Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian fencer (d. 2018)
- October 19
- October 20 – Robert Pinsky, American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator United States Poet Laureate
- October 21
- October 23 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer (d. 2022)
- October 24 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (d. 2015)
- October 25
- October 26 – Gennadi Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2004)
- October 27
- October 29
November
- November 2 – Gigi Proietti, Italian actor and comedian (b. 2020)
- November 3 – Mirlande Manigat, First Lady of Haiti
- November 5
- November 11 – Barbara Boxer, American politician
- November 12 – Donald Wuerl, American archbishop
- November 13 – Saul Kripke, American philosopher and logician (d. 2022)
- November 15
- November 17 – Luke Kelly, Irish ballad singer (d. 1984)
- November 18 – Qaboos bin Said Al Said, Sultan of Oman (d. 2020)
- November 20 – Helma Sanders-Brahms, German film director (d. 2014)
- November 21
- November 22
- November 25
- November 26 – Gianni De Michelis, Italian politician (d. 2019)
- November 27 – Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist, actor (d. 1973)
- November 29
December
- December 1 – Richard Pryor, African-American actor, comedian (d. 2005)
- December 4 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
- December 5 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
- December 11
- December 12
- December 19 – Phil Ochs, American protest singer (d. 1976)
- December 21 – Frank Zappa, American musician, composer, and satirist (d. 1993)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018)
- December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
- December 29
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January
- January 3
- January 4 – Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921)
- January 9 – Waldo Frank, American novelist and historian (b. 1889)
- January 12 – Holland Smith, American general (b. 1882)
- January 14 – Miklós Kállay, 34th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1887)
- January 17
- January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915)
- January 22 – Jobyna Ralston, American actress (b. 1899)
- January 23 – Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (b. 1878)
- January 24 – Luigi Federzoni, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1878)
- January 27
- January 28 – Leonhard Seppala, Norwegian-American sled dog breeder, trainer and musher (b. 1877)
- January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1909)
February
- February 3 – Joe Meek, English record producer and sound engineer (b. 1929)
- February 6
- February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872)
- February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
- February 13 – Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (1932-1934) (b. 1889)
- February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
- February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
- February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911)
- February 17 – Ciro Alegría, Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist (b. 1909)
- February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
- February 24 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906)
- February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
March
April
- April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
- April 13 – Luis Somoza Debayle, 26th President of Nicaragua (b. 1922)
- April 15 – Totò, Italian actor (b. 1898)
- April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
- April 18 – Friedrich Heiler, German theologian and historian (b. 1892)
- April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, German statesman, 27th Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1876)
- April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
- April 23 – Edgar Neville, Spanish playwright and film director (b. 1899)
- April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
- April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1884)
- April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
May
June
- June 3 – Arthur Tedder, British air force general, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890)
- June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
- June 6 – Edward Givens, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- June 11 – Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist (b. 1887)
- June 13
- June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
- June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
- June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
- June 26 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (b. 1942)
- June 29
July
August
September
October
- October 3
- October 5 – Clifton Williams, American astronaut (b. 1932)
- October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
- October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician, 60th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
- October 9
- October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895)
- October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896)
- October 30 – Charles Trowbridge, American actor (b. 1882)
November
- November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868)
- November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891)
- November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
- November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
- November 19 – Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
- November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
- November 26 – Albert Warner, American film producer (b. 1884)
- November 28 – Léon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902)
- November 29 – Ferenc Münnich, 47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886)
December
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January
February
- February 1 – Richard Wattis, English actor (b. 1912)
- February 3
- February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
- February 8
- February 10
- February 11 – Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman (b. 1931)
- February 14
- February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
- February 17
- February 18 – Chivu Stoica, Romanian Communist politician, 48th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1908)
- February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
- February 20 – Robert Strauss, American actor (b. 1913)
- February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
- February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, American Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)
March
- March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
- March 6 – Glenn Hardin, American athlete (b. 1910)
- March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
- March 8
- March 9 – Shirley Ross, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
- March 11 – Margarita Fischer, German silent film actress (b. 1886)
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
- March 16 – T-Bone Walker, American blues performer (b. 1910)
- March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film director (b. 1886)
- March 20 – Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (b. 1908)
- March 25
- March 27 – Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1891)
April
- April 3 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
- April 5
- April 10
- April 12 – Josephine Baker, France entertainer, activist (b. 1906)
- April 13
- April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
- April 15 – Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
- April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
- April 19 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist (b. 1899)
- April 22 – Mary Philips, American actress (b. 1901)
- April 23 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
- April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
- April 27 – John B. McKay, American test pilot (b. 1922)
May
June
- June 3
- June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1895)
- June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat (b. 1892)
- June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (b. 1884)
- June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina (b. 1910)
- June 15 – William Austin, English actor (b. 1884)
- June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
- June 19 – Sam Giancana, American mobster (b. 1908)
- June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. 1886)
- June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator (b. 1924)
- June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
July
- July 2 – James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907)
- July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1893)
- July 5 – Otto Skorzeny, Austrian-born German lieutenant colonel (b. 1908)
- July 7 – Jacob Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist (b. 1897)
- July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1898)
- July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director (b. 1924)
- July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
- July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
- July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
- July 25 – Eugen Fink, German philosopher (b. 1905)
- July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1921)
August
- August 3 – Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet (b. 1901)
- August 5 – Gustav von Wangenheim, German actor and director (b. 1895)
- August 8 – Cannonball Adderley, American jazz alto saxophonist (b. 1929)
- August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
- August 10 – Anthony McAuliffe, American general (b. 1898)
- August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. 1885)
- August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
- August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet athlete (b. 1927)
- August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
- August 19
- August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer (b. 1894)
- August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1896)
- August 27 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
- August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- August 29 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882)
September
- September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881)
- September 9
- September 10 – George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour (b. 1895)
- September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
- September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. 1905)
- September 27 – Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
- September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
October
- October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France (b. 1905)
- October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
- October 6 – Henry Calvin, American actor (b. 1918)
- October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
- October 18 – Al Lettieri, American actor (b. 1928)
- October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (b. 1889)
- October 27
- October 28
- October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- October 31 – Joseph Calleia, Maltese-American actor (b. 1897)
November
December
- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
- December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer (b. 1895)
- December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896)
- December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
- December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890)
- December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
- December 15 – Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
- December 17
- December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1900)
- December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO (b. 1905)
- December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914)
- December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director (b. 1891)
- December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
- December 25 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
- December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter (b. 1901)
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- January 1
- January 3 – Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
- January 8 – Don Galloway, American actor (b. 1937)
- January 12
- January 13 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor (b. 1928)
- January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920)
- January 15 – Said Seyam, Palestinian politician (b. 1959)
- January 16 – Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917)
- January 19 – José Torres, Puerto Rican professional boxer (b. 1936)
- January 20 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1920)
- January 22 – Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 21st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1905)
- January 24 – Karl Koller, Austrian footballer (b. 1929)
- January 25 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (b. 1910)
- January 27
- January 30 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer (b. 1932)
February
March
- March 2 – João Bernardo Vieira, 2nd President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
- March 3 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor (b. 1926)
- March 4 – Horton Foote, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1916)
- March 5 – Valeri Broshin, Turkish footballer and manager (b. 1962)
- March 7 – Tullio Pinelli, Italian screenwriter (b. 1908)
- March 8 – Hank Locklin, American country music singer (b. 1918)
- March 13
- March 14
- March 15 – Ron Silver, American actor and political activist (b. 1946)
- March 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion stylist (b. 1937)
- March 18 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
- March 20 – Abdellatif Filali, 13th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1928)
- March 22 – Jade Goody, British reality TV star (b. 1981)
- March 25
- March 28 – Janet Jagan, 6th Prime Minister and 6th President of Guyana (b. 1920)
- March 29 – Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor (b. 1924)
- March 31 – Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (b. 1927)
April
May
- May 2
- May 4 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
- May 9 – Chuck Daly, American basketball coach (b. 1930)
- May 11 – Abel Goumba, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b. 1926)
- May 13 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian mountaineer (b. 1914)
- May 17 – Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920)
- May 18
- May 19 – Robert F. Furchgott, American scientist (b. 1916)
- May 20 – Lucy Gordon, English actress and model (b. 1980)
- May 23 – Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea (b. 1946).
- May 27 – Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934)
- May 29 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
- May 30
- May 31
June
- June 1
- June 2 – David Eddings, American author (b. 1931)
- June 3
- June 6 – Jean Dausset, French Nobel immunologist (b. 1916)
- June 8 – Omar Bongo, 2nd President of Gabon (b. 1935)
- June 12 – Félix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad (b. 1932)
- June 13 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1962)
- June 16 – Peter Arundell, British racing driver (b. 1933)
- June 17 – Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social theorist and politician (b. 1929)
- June 18
- June 20 – Godfrey Rampling, English athlete and army officer (b. 1909)
- June 23 – Ed McMahon, American announcer, game show host, comedian, police officer, actor and singer (b. 1923)
- June 24 – Olja Ivanjicki, Serbian painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1931)
- June 25
- June 27 – Gale Storm, American actress (b. 1922)
- June 28 – Billy Mays, American pitchman and television host (b. 1958)
- June 30
July
- July 1
- July 3 – Jorge Enrique Adoum, Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat (b. 1926)
- July 4
- July 6
- July 13 – Amin al-Hafez, 22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926)
- July 15 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian human rights activist (b. 1958)
- July 17
- July 18
- July 19
- July 24 – José Carlos da Costa Araújo, Brazilian goalkeeper (b. 1962)
- July 25 – Harry Patch, English war veteran (b. 1898)
- July 26 – Merce Cunningham, American choreographer (b. 1919)
- July 31 – Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
August
- August 1 – Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (b. 1933)
- August 4 – Hirotugu Akaike, Japanese statistician (b. 1927)
- August 5 – Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
- August 6
- August 8 – Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983)
- August 9 – John Quade, American actor (b. 1938)
- August 10 – Urpo Korhonen, Finnish olympic cross-country skier (b. 1923)
- August 11 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921)
- August 12 – Rashied Ali, American free jazz drummer (b. 1933)
- August 13 – Les Paul, American musician and inventor (b. 1915)
- August 18 – Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea (b. 1924)
- August 23 – Anna-Maria Müller, German athlete (b. 1949)
- August 24 – Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer (b. 1935)
- August 25 – Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932)
- August 26 – Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953)
- August 27 – Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author (b. 1913)
- August 28 – DJ AM, American DJ (b. 1973)
September
- September 8 – Aage Bohr, Danish Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
- September 9 – Léon Glovacki, French footballer (b. 1928)
- September 11
- September 12
- September 13 – Paul Burke, American actor (b. 1926)
- September 14
- September 16 – Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
- September 17 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968)
- September 18 – Irving Kristol, American writer and political commentator (b. 1920)
- September 23 – Ertuğrul Osman, 43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (b. 1912)
- September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, Spanish pianist (b. 1923)
- September 28 – Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
- September 29 – Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930)
October
- October 2
- October 4
- October 5 – Israel Gelfand, Soviet-American mathematician (b. 1913)
- October 7 – Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
- October 10 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (b. 1976)
- October 11 – Joan Martí i Alanis, 64th Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1928)
- October 12 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
- October 13 – Al Martino, American singer and actor (b. 1927)
- October 14 – Lou Albano, Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor (b. 1933)
- October 17 – Carla Boni, Italian singer (b. 1925)
- October 19 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)
- October 20 – Yuri Ryazanov, Russian artistic gymnast (b. 1987)
- October 22 – Soupy Sales, American comedian, actor, radio/television personality (b. 1926)
- October 28 – Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer (b. 1990)
- October 30 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (b. 1908)
- October 31 – Hsue-Shen Tsien, Chinese scientist (b. 1911)
November
- November 1 – Alda Merini, Italian writer and poet (b. 1931)
- November 2 – Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (b. 1941)
- November 3 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
- November 8 – Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian Nobel physicist (b. 1916)
- November 10
- November 15
- November 16
- November 18 – Jeanne-Claude, French-American artist (b. 1935)
- November 20 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
- November 21 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
- November 24 – Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1935)
- November 26 – Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Romanian fencer (b. 1946)
- November 29 – Robert Holdstock, English novelist (b. 1948)
- November 30
December
- December 2 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and keyboardist (b. 1945)
- December 3 – Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor (b. 1919)
- December 4
- December 5
- December 9
- December 12
- December 13 – Paul Samuelson, American Nobel Prize-winning economist (b. 1915)
- December 14 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (b. 1934)
- December 15 – Oral Roberts, American Evangelist (b. 1918)
- December 16
- December 17
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American Nobel biologist (b. 1918)
- December 23
- December 24 – Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
- December 25 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964)
- December 26
- December 27 – Takashi Takabayashi, Japanese footballer (b. 1931)
- December 28 – The Rev, American musician (b. 1981)
- December 30
- December 31 – Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1924)
2014:
-
January
- January 1 – Juanita Moore, American actress (b. 1914)
- January 3 – Saul Zaentz, American film producer (b. 1921)
- January 5
- January 6 – Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (b. 1984)
- January 7 – Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong filmmaker and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
- January 9
- January 10 – Zbigniew Messner, 9th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (b. 1929)
- January 11
- January 13 – Anjali Devi, Indian actress (b. 1927)
- January 14
- January 15 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (b. 1944)
- January 16
- January 17 – Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (b. 1931)
- January 18 – Dennis Frederiksen, American singer (b. 1951)
- January 20 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
- January 22 – Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Indian actor and film producer (b. 1924)
- January 23 – Riz Ortolani, Italian film composer (b. 1926)
- January 25 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1951)
- January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and writer (b. 1939)
- January 27 – Pete Seeger, American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist (b. 1919)
- January 31
February
- February 1
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4 – Wu Ma, Chinese actor and director (b. 1942)
- February 5
- February 6 – Ralph Kiner, American baseball player and broadcaster (b. 1922)
- February 8 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
- February 10
- February 11 – Alice Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1924)
- February 12 – Sid Caesar, American actor (b. 1922)
- February 13
- February 14 – Tom Finney, English footballer (b. 1922)
- February 18 – Nelson Frazier, Jr., American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
- February 19 – Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
- February 23 – Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-British pianist (b. 1903)
- February 24 – Harold Ramis, American film director, writer, and actor (b. 1944)
- February 25 – Mário Coluna, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1935)
- February 26 – Paco de Lucía, Spanish guitarist (b. 1947)
- February 27 – Huber Matos, Cuban political leader, activist and writer (b. 1918)
March
- March 1 – Alain Resnais, French film director (b. 1922)
- March 3
- March 9 – Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. c. 1957)
- March 12 – Věra Chytilová, Czech film director (b. 1929)
- March 13 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (b. 1932)
- March 14 – Tony Benn, British politician and diarist (b. 1925)
- March 15
- March 17 – L'Wren Scott, American stylist and fashion designer (b. 1964)
- March 18 – Lucius Shepard, American writer (b. 1942)
- March 19 – Fred Phelps, American pastor (b. 1929)
- March 20 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
- March 21
- March 23 – Adolfo Suárez, 138th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
- March 25 – Nanda, Indian actress (b. 1939)
- March 27 – James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician (b. 1929)
- March 31 – Frankie Knuckles, American disk jockey and record producer (b. 1955)
April
- April 1 – Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
- April 4 – Kumba Ialá, President of Guinea-Bissau (2000–2003) (b. 1953)
- April 6 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1920)
- April 8
- April 9 – A. N. R. Robinson, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1926)
- April 10 – Sue Townsend, British novelist and playwright (b. 1946)
- April 13 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentine political theorist (b. 1935)
- April 16 – Gyude Bryant, Liberian politician (b. 1949)
- April 17
- April 18 – Ramon Malla Call, 63rd Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1922)
- April 20 – Rubin Carter, American boxer (b. 1937)
- April 24
- April 25 – Tito Vilanova, Spanish footballer and coach (b. 1968)
- April 27 – Vujadin Boškov, Serbian football player and coach (b. 1931)
- April 29 – Bob Hoskins, British actor (b. 1942)
- April 30 – Ian Ross, Australian newsreader (b. 1940)
May
June
July
- July 1 – Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, 1st Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (b. 1925)
- July 2 – Louis Zamperini, American war veteran and Christian evangelist (b. 1917)
- July 3 – Dave Legeno, English actor (b. 1963)
- July 5 – Rosemary Murphy, American actress (b. 1925)
- July 7
- July 10 – Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress and dancer (b. 1912)
- July 11
- July 13
- July 14 – Alice Coachman, American athlete (b. 1923)
- July 16 – Johnny Winter, American singer and guitarist (b. 1944)
- July 17
- July 19
- July 25 – Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)
- July 27 – Francesco Marchisano, Italian cardinal (b. 1929)
- July 28 – James Shigeta, American actor (b. 1929)
- July 30 – Julio Grondona, Argentinian football authority (b. 1931)
August
- August 1 – Valyantsin Byalkevich, Belarusian footballer and manager (b. 1973)
- August 3 – Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (b. 1923)
- August 5 – Harold J. Greene, American military officer (b. 1959)
- August 6 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist (b. 1927)
- August 8
- August 9
- August 11
- August 12 – Lauren Bacall, American actress (b. 1924)
- August 13 – Frans Brüggen, Dutch musician (b. 1934)
- August 15 – Licia Albanese, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
- August 18 – Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (b. 1918)
- August 19 – Simin Behbahani, Iranian poet (b. 1927)
- August 20
- August 21
- August 22 – U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (b. 1932)
- August 24 – Richard Attenborough, British actor and film director (b. 1923)
- August 27 – Peret, Spanish Romani musician (b. 1935)
- August 28 – Glenn Cornick, British bass guitarist (b. 1947)
- August 29 – Björn Waldegård, Swedish rally driver (b. 1943)
September
- September – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (b. 1924)[citation needed]
- September 1 – Gottfried John, German actor (b. 1942)
- September 4
- September 5
- September 6 – Kira Zvorykina, Belarusian chess player (b. 1919)
- September 7 – Kwon Ri-se, South Korean singer (b. 1991)
- September 8
- September 9 – Bob Suter, American ice hockey player (b. 1957)
- September 10
- September 11 – Bob Crewe, American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager and record producer (b. 1930)
- September 12
- September 15
- September 17
- September 20
- September 24 – Christopher Hogwood, English conductor, writer, and musicologist (b. 1941)
- September 25
- September 28 – Dannie Abse, British poet (b. 1923)
- September 30 – Martin Lewis Perl, American Nobel physicist (b. 1927)
October
- October 2 – György Lázár, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (b. 1924)
- October 4
- October 5
- October 6
- October 7 – Siegfried Lenz, German writer (b. 1926)
- October 9 – Jan Hooks, American actress and comedian (b. 1957)
- October 14 – Elizabeth Peña, American actress (b. 1959)
- October 16 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, British peer and educator (b. 1926)
- October 17 – Masaru Emoto, Japanese author (b. 1943)
- October 20 – Oscar de la Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (b. 1932)
- October 21
- October 23 – Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1931)
- October 24
- October 25 – Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (b. 1943)
- October 26 – Oscar Taveras, Dominican–Canadian professional baseball player (b. 1992)
- October 28 – Michael Sata, 5th President of Zambia (b. 1937)
- October 29
- October 30 – Thomas Menino, American politician (b. 1942)
November
- November 1 – Edson Décimo Alves Araújo, Brazilian footballer (b. 1986)
- November 2
- November 3
- November 10 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
- November 11 – Carol Ann Susi, American actress (b. 1952)
- November 12 – Warren Clarke, English actor (b. 1947)
- November 13
- November 14
- November 16 – Serge Moscovici, Romanian-French psychologist (b. 1925)
- November 17 – Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (b. 1936)
- November 18 – Ahmad Lozi, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925)
- November 19 – Mike Nichols, German-born American film director (b. 1931)
- November 20 – Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1926)
- November 22 – Fiorenzo Angelini, Italian cardinal (b. 1916)
- November 23
- November 24 – Viktor Tikhonov, Soviet ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
- November 26 – Sabah, Lebanese singer and actress (b. 1927)
- November 27
- November 28 – Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Mexican actor and comedian (b. 1929)
- November 30 – Go Seigen, Chinese-born Japanese Go player (b. 1914)
December
2016:
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January
- January 1 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1930)
- January 2 – Sheikh Nimr, Saudi Shia religious leader (b. 1959)
- January 3
- January 4 – Michel Galabru, French actor (b. 1922)
- January 5 – Pierre Boulez, French composer, conductor and writer (b. 1925)
- January 6 – Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress (b. 1925)
- January 7
- January 8
- January 10
- January 11
- January 14
- January 15 – Dan Haggerty, American actor (b. 1941)
- January 18
- January 19 – Ettore Scola, Italian screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
- January 23 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician (b. 1947)
- January 24 – Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist (b. 1927)
- January 26
- January 28 – Paul Kantner, American singer and musician (b. 1941)
- January 29
- January 30
- January 31 – Terry Wogan, Irish-British broadcaster (b. 1938)
February
- February 1 – Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 27th President of Guatemala (b. 1930)
- February 3 – Joe Alaskey, American actor and stand-up comedian (b. 1952)
- February 4
- February 8 – Amelia Bence, Argentine actress (b. 1914)
- February 9 – Sushil Koirala, 37th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1939)
- February 13
- February 15
- February 16 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1922)
- February 17
- February 19
- February 22
- February 23 – Donald E. Williams, American astronaut (b. 1942)
- February 24 – Peter Kenilorea, 1st Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1943)
- February 25 – Tony Burton, American actor (b. 1937)
- February 28
- February 29 – Hannes Löhr, German footballer (b. 1942)
March
- March 2 – Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (b. 1932)
- March 3 – Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader (b. 1971)
- March 5
- March 6 – Nancy Reagan, American actress, First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)
- March 8
- March 9
- March 10
- March 11 – Dragan Nikolić, Serbian actor (b. 1943)
- March 12 – Lloyd Shapley, American Nobel mathematician (b. 1923)
- March 13 – Hilary Putnam, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1926)
- March 14 – Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (b. 1934)
- March 16 – Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
- March 17
- March 18 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
- March 20 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
- March 21 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American electronic executive (b. 1936)
- March 22
- March 23 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944)
- March 24
- March 26 – Raúl Cárdenas, Mexican footballer and coach (b. 1928)
- March 29 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946)
- March 31
April
- April 1 – Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian television actress (b. 1991)
- April 2 – Gato Barbieri, Argentine jazz saxophonist (b. 1932)
- April 3
- April 4 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
- April 6 – Merle Haggard, American country singer (b. 1937)
- April 8 – Erich Rudorffer, German fighter ace (b. 1917)
- April 10 – Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner (b. 1945)
- April 12
- April 16 – Louis Pilot, Luxembourgian football player and manager (b. 1940)
- April 17 – Doris Roberts, American actress, author, and philanthropist (b. 1930)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21
- April 23 – Banharn Silpa-archa, 21st Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1932)
- April 24
- April 26 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (b. 1937)
- April 27 – Viktor Gavrikov, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster (b. 1957)
- April 30 – Harry Kroto, English Nobel chemist (b. 1939)
May
June
- June 2 – Tom Kibble, British physicist (b. 1932)
- June 3
- June 4 – Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (b. 1937)
- June 5 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist (b. 1915)
- June 6
- June 7 – Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager (b. 1962)
- June 8 – Qahhor Mahkamov, 1st President of Tajikistan (b. 1932)
- June 9 – Hassan Muhammad Makki, 10th Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1933)
- June 10
- June 11 – Rudi Altig, German road racing cyclist (b. 1937)
- June 12
- June 14 – Ann Morgan Guilbert, American actress (b. 1928)
- June 16 – Jo Cox, English politician (b. 1974)
- June 18 – Vittorio Merloni, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1933)
- June 19
- June 20 – Edgard Pisani, French politician (b. 1918)
- June 23
- June 25 – Maurice G. Dantec, French writer (b. 1959)
- June 27
- June 28
- June 30 – Martin Lundström, Swedish Olympic cross country skier (b. 1918)
July
August
September
- September 1 – Jon Polito, American actor (b. 1950)
- September 2
- September 3
- September 5
- September 7
- September 8
- September 11 – Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (b. 1969)
- September 12 – Sándor Csoóri, Hungarian poet (b. 1930)
- September 13 – Jonathan Riley-Smith, English medieval historian (b. 1938)
- September 16
- September 17
- September 20 – Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- September 23 – Marcel Artelesa, French footballer (b. 1938)
- September 24
- September 25
- September 26 – Herschell Gordon Lewis, American film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- September 27 – Jamshid Amouzegar, 71st Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1923)
- September 28 – Shimon Peres, 9th President and 8th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1923)
- September 29 – Miriam Defensor Santiago, Filipino politician (b. 1945)
- September 30 – Trịnh Thị Ngọ, Vietnamese radio personality (b. 1931)
October
- October 1 – David Herd, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
- October 2 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
- October 4 – Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and author (b. 1940)
- October 5 – Michal Kováč, 1st President of Slovakia (b. 1930)
- October 8
- October 9
- October 11 – Teatao Teannaki, 2nd President of Kiribati (b. 1936)
- October 12 – Thomas Mikal Ford, American actor and comedian (b. 1964)
- October 13
- October 14 – Klim Churyumov, Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1937)
- October 16
- October 20
- October 23 – Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1932)
- October 24
- October 25 – Carlos Alberto Torres, Brazilian footballer (b. 1944)
- October 27 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa (b. 1915)
- October 28 – Nicholas Brathwaite, 3rd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1925)
- October 29
- October 31 – Silvio Gazzaniga, Italian sculptor (b. 1921)
November
- November 2 – Oleg Popov, Soviet and Russian clown (b. 1930)
- November 3 – W. D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1927)
- November 4 – Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
- November 5 – Marek Svatoš, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1982)
- November 6 – Zoltán Kocsis, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1952)
- November 7
- November 11
- November 12 – Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (b. 1910)
- November 13
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17 – Whitney Smith, American vexillologist (b. 1940)
- November 18
- November 20
- November 22 – M. Balamuralikrishna, Indian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer (b. 1930)
- November 23
- November 24
- November 25
- November 27 – Ioannis Grivas, 176th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1923)
- November 28
- November 29 – Luis Alberto Monge, 39th President of Costa Rica (b. 1925)
December
- December 2 – Sammy Lee, American Olympic diver (b. 1920)
- December 4 – Gotlib, French comic artist (b. 1934)
- December 5
- December 6 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b. 1923)
- December 7
- December 8
- December 10 – Esma Redžepova, Macedonian-Romani singer (b. 1943)
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 16 – Faina Melnik, Ukrainian-born Russian Olympic discus thrower (b. 1945)
- December 17 – Henry Heimlich, American physician (b. 1920)
- December 18 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917)
- December 19 – Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat (b. 1954)
- December 20 – Michèle Morgan, French actress (b. 1920)
- December 22 – Miruts Yifter, Ethiopian long-distance runner (b. 1944)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26 – Ashot Anastasian, Armenian chess grandmaster (b. 1964)
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30 – Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (b. 1910)
- December 31
2018:
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January
February
- February 1
- February 2
- February 3
- February 4
- February 5 – Ladislav Kačáni, Slovak footballer and coach (b. 1931)
- February 6 – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935)
- February 7
- February 8 – Jarrod Bannister, Australian athlete (b. 1984)
- February 9
- February 10 – Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (b. 1925)
- February 11
- February 12
- February 13
- February 14
- February 15 – Lassie Lou Ahern, American actress (b. 1920)
- February 18
- February 19
- February 20 – Jiichiro Date, Japanese wrestler (b. 1952)
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
- February 24
- February 26 – João W. Nery, Brazilian writer and LGBT activist (b. 1950)
- February 27 – Quini, Spanish football player (b. 1949)
- February 28 – Rogelio Guerra, Mexican actor (b. 1936)
March
April
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938)
- April 4
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist (b. 1939)
- April 8
- April 9 – Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff, German supercentenarian (b. 1905)
- April 12 – Sergio Pitol, Mexican novelist and translator (b. 1933)
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16
- April 17 – Barbara Bush, 41st First Lady of the United States (b. 1925)
- April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1935)
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21
- April 22
- April 24 – Henri Michel, French footballer and coach (b. 1947)
- April 25
- April 26 – Yoshinobu Ishii, Japanese footballer (b. 1939)
- April 27 – Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala (b. 1946)
- April 28 – Tetsuro Miura, Japanese football player and manager (b. 1956)
- April 29
May
- May 1
- May 2 – Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
- May 3 – Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician (b. 1953)
- May 4 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
- May 5 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- May 7 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (b. 1960)
- May 8
- May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938)
- May 10
- May 11 – Gérard Genette, French literary theorist (b. 1930)
- May 12
- May 13
- May 14
- May 15
- May 16
- May 17
- May 18 – Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929)
- May 19
- May 20 – Patricia Morison, American actress (b. 1915)
- May 21
- May 22
- May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban terrorist (b. 1928)
- May 24
- May 25 – Naser Malek Motiei, Iranian actor (b. 1930)
- May 26
- May 27
- May 28
June
- June 1
- June 2
- June 3
- June 5 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962)
- June 6
- June 7
- June 8
- June 9
- June 10 – Stan Anderson, English footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- June 11 – Oscar Furlong, Argentine basketball player (b. 1927)
- June 12 – Jon Hiseman, English drummer (b. 1944)
- June 13
- June 14
- June 15
- June 16 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931)
- June 18
- June 19
- June 20
- June 21 – Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator (b. 1950)
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24 – Stanley Anderson, American actor (b. 1939)
- June 25 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American businessman and television personality (b. 1941)
- June 26 – Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (b. 1932)
- June 27 – Joe Jackson, American talent manager (b. 1928)
- June 28
- June 29
- June 30 – José Antonio Zaldúa, Spanish footballer (b. 1941)
July
- July 1 – Dame Gillian Lynne, British dancer and choreographer (b. 1926)
- July 2
- July 3 – Richard Swift, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and filmmaker (b. 1977)
- July 4
- July 5
- July 6
- July 7 – Tyler Honeycutt, American basketball player (b. 1990)
- July 8
- July 9
- July 10
- July 11 – Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1931)
- July 12
- July 13
- July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister of Namibia (b. 1938)
- July 15
- July 16 – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (b. 1929)
- July 17 – Yvonne Blake, British-Spanish costume designer (b. 1940)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 22 – Frank Havens, French sprint canoeist (b. 1924)
- July 23
- July 24 – Mary Ellis, British ferry pilot (b. 1917)
- July 25 – Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian automotive executive (b. 1952)
- July 27 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (b. 1932)
- July 29
- July 30 – Ron Dellums, American politician (b. 1935)
August
- August 1
- August 2
- August 3 – Moshé Mizrahi, Israeli film director (b. 1931)
- August 4 – Masahiko Tsugawa, Japanese actor and director (b. 1940)
- August 5
- August 6
- August 7
- August 8 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1990)
- August 10 – László Fábián, Hungarian sprint canoeist (b. 1936)
- August 11
- August 12 – Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxian economist (b. 1931)
- August 13
- August 14 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
- August 15 – Rita Borsellino, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician (b. 1945)
- August 16
- August 17 – Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor (b. 1924)
- August 18 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate (b. 1938)
- August 20
- August 21
- August 22 – Ed King, American musician (b. 1949)
- August 23
- August 24 – Ciril Zlobec, Slovene poet, writer, and politician (b. 1925)
- August 25 – John McCain, American politician (b. 1936)
- August 26 – Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927)
- August 28 – Tatyana Kuznetsova, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1941)
- August 29 – James Mirrlees, Scottish Nobel economist (b. 1936)
- August 30
- August 31
September
- September 1 – Randy Weston, American musician (b. 1926)
- September 2 – Conway Savage, Australian pianist (b. 1960)
- September 3
- September 4
- September 5 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934)
- September 6
- September 7
- September 8
- September 9 – Frank Andersson, Swedish wrestler (b. 1956)
- September 10 – Peter Donat, Canadian-American actor (b. 1928)
- September 11
- September 12 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist (b. 1958)
- September 14 – Anneke Grönloh, Dutch singer (b. 1942)
- September 15
- September 16 – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (b. 1953)
- September 18 – Robert Venturi, American architect (b. 1925)
- September 19
- September 20 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 7th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1919)
- September 21
- September 22 – Al Matthews, American actor and singer (b. 1942)
- September 23
- September 25 – Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator (b. 1923)
- September 27 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician (b. 1942)
- September 28 – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 8th Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1942)
- September 29 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1934)
- September 30 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
October
- October 1
- October 2
- October 3 – Leon M. Lederman, American Nobel physicist (b. 1922)
- October 4
- October 6
- October 7
- October 8
- October 9
- October 10
- October 11
- October 12 – Pik Botha, South African politician (b. 1932)
- October 13 – Jim Taylor, American football player (b. 1935)
- October 14 – Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (b. 1940)
- October 15
- October 17 – Ara Güler, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist (b. 1928)
- October 18
- October 19 – Osamu Shimomura, Japanese Nobel chemist and marine biologist (b. 1928)
- October 20 – Wim Kok, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938)
- October 21 – Joachim Rønneberg, Norwegian military officer and anti-Nazi resistant (b. 1919)
- October 22 – José Varacka, Argentine football player and coach (b. 1932)
- October 23 – James Karen, American actor (b. 1923)
- October 24 – Tony Joe White, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
- October 25 – Sonny Fortune, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1939)
- October 26 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1944)
- October 27
- October 30
- October 31 – Willie McCovey, American baseball player (b. 1938)
November
- November 1 – Yurik Vardanyan, Armenian weightlifter (b. 1956)
- November 2
- November 3 – Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944)
- November 4 – Serhiy Tkach, Russian-Ukrainian serial killer (b. 1952)
- November 6 – Jonathan Cantwell, Australian racing cyclist (b. 1982)
- November 7 – Francis Lai, French composer (b. 1932)
- November 8 – Bruno Caruso, Sicilian painter, illustrator, writer, graphic designer and political activist (d. 1927)
- November 11 – Douglas Rain, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
- November 12
- November 13
- November 14
- November 15
- John Bluthal, Polish-born radio, stage, actor, comedian, and voice artist (b. 1929)
- Roy Clark, American country singer (b. 1933)
- Takayuki Fujikawa, Japanese footballer (b. 1962)
- Adolf Grünbaum, German-American philosopher (b. 1923)
- Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist, and historian (b. 1925)
- November 16 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
- November 19 – Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1955)
- November 20
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23 – Nicolas Roeg, British film director (b. 1928)
- November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor (b. 1946)
- November 25
- November 26
- November 28
- November 29 – Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1948)
- November 30 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)
December
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January
- January 1 – Ivan Dimitrov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1935)
- January 2
- January 4 – Harold Brown, 14th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1927)
- January 5 – Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1937)
- January 6
- January 7 – Moshe Arens, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer, researcher, diplomat, and politician (b. 1925)
- January 9
- January 11 – Michael Atiyah, British-Lebanese mathematician and academic (b. 1929)
- January 13 – Phil Masinga, South African footballer (b. 1969)
- January 14 – Paweł Adamowicz, Polish politician (b. 1965)
- January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress (b. 1921)
- January 16
- January 17
- January 18 – Ivan Vutsov, Bulgarian footballer and coach (b. 1939)
- January 19 – Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate (b. 1924)
- January 20 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer (b. 1944)
- January 21
- January 23
- January 24 – Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, Spanish cardinal (b. 1929)
- January 25
- January 26
- January 29
- January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor (b. 1928)
February
- February 1
- February 2 – Carol Emshwiller, American author (b. 1921)
- February 3
- February 4
- February 5 – Václav Vorlíček, Czech film director (b. 1930)
- February 6
- February 7
- February 8
- February 9
- February 10
- February 11 – Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, Afghani politician (b. 1925)
- February 12
- February 14 – Andrea Levy, English novelist (b. 1956)
- February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite (b. 1933)
- February 16
- February 17 – Šaban Šaulić, Serbian singer (b. 1951)
- February 18
- February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (b. 1933)
- February 20
- February 21
- February 22
- February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress (b. 1929)
- February 24
- February 25
- February 26 – Christian Bach, Argentine-Mexican actress and producer (b. 1959)
- February 27 – France-Albert René, 2nd President of Seychelles (b. 1935)
- February 28 – André Previn, German-American composer (b. 1929)
March
- March 1
- March 2 – Med Hondo, Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1936)
- March 4
- March 5 – Jacques Loussier, French pianist and composer (b. 1934)
- March 6 – Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist (b. 1939)
- March 7
- March 8 – Michael Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer (b. 1927)
- March 9
- March 10 – İrsen Küçük, Cypriot politician, 6th Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1940)
- March 11
- March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer (b. 1961)
- March 14
- March 15
- March 16
- March 17 – Manohar Parrikar, Indian politician (b. 1955)
- March 19 – Marlen Khutsiev, Georgian-Russian filmaker (b. 1925)
- March 20
- March 22
- March 23
- March 27 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut (b. 1934)
- March 29 – Agnès Varda, Belgian-French film director (b. 1928)
- March 30 – Tania Mallet, English model and actress (b. 1941)
- March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper, activist, and entrepreneur (b. 1985)
April
- April 1
- April 2 – Jamshid Mashayekhi, Iranian actor (b. 1934)
- April 4 – Georgiy Daneliya, Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1930)
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (b. 1935)
- April 9
- April 10 – Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
- April 12
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15 – Owen Garriott, American astronaut (b. 1930)
- April 16
- April 17 – Alan García, Peruvian politician, 61st and 64th President of Peru (b. 1949)
- April 18 – Lyra McKee, Northern Irish journalist (b. 1990)
- April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist (b. 1944)
- April 20 – Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iranian artist (b. 1922)
- April 21
- April 22
- April 23
- April 24 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
- April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (b. 1940)
- April 26 – Ellen Schwiers, German actress (b. 1930)
- April 27 – Negasso Gidada, 4th President of Ethiopia (b. 1943)
- April 28
- April 29
- April 30
May
- May 1 – Dinko Dermendzhiev, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1941)
- May 2
- May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician (b. 1930)
- May 6 – Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1941)
- May 7 – Jean Vanier, Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian and humanitarian (b. 1928)
- May 8
- May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
- May 10 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician (b. 1951)
- May 11
- May 12
- May 13 – Doris Day, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
- May 14
- May 16
- May 17 – Herman Wouk, American author (b. 1915)
- May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver (b. 1949)
- May 21 – Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer and journalist (b. 1971)
- May 22
- May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American physicist (b. 1929)
- May 25 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (b. 1926)
- May 26
- May 27 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player (b. 1949)
- May 28
- May 30
- May 31 – Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
June
- June 1
- June 2 – Ken Matthews, English race walker (b. 1934)
- June 3
- June 4
- June 5 – Elio Sgreccia, Italian cardinal (b. 1928)
- June 6 – Dr. John, American musician (b 1941)
- June 8 – André Matos, Brazilian vocalist, pianist and composer (b. 1971)
- June 9 – Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (b. 1966)
- June 10
- June 11 – Martin Feldstein, American economist (b. 1939)
- June 12 – Sylvia Miles, American actress (b. 1924)
- June 13 – Edith González, Mexican actress (b. 1964)
- June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director and politician (b. 1923)
- June 16 – Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, Hungarian gymnast (b. 1924)
- June 17
- June 19 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
- June 20 – Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (b. 1929)
- June 21 – Demetris Christofias, Cypriot politician, 6th President of Cyprus (b. 1946)
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24 – Billy Drago, American actor (b. 1945)
- June 25 – Isabel Sarli, Argentine actress and model (b. 1929)
- June 26
- June 29
- June 30
July
- July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive (b. 1924)
- July 3 – Arte Johnson, American comedian and actor (b. 1929)
- July 4
- July 6
- July 7 – Artur Brauner, Polish-German film producer and entrepreneur (b. 1918)
- July 9
- July 10
- July 12
- July 13 – Paolo Sardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1934)
- July 14
- July 16
- July 17 – Andrea Camilleri, Italian writer (b. 1925)
- July 18
- July 19
- July 20 – Sheila Dikshit, Indian politician (b. 1938)
- July 21 – José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926)
- July 22
- July 25 – Beji Caid Essebsi, 5th President and 18th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1926)
- July 26
- July 27 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist (b. 1931)
- July 28 – George Hilton, Uruguayan actor (b. 1934)
- July 29 – Egil Danielsen, Norwegian javelin thrower (b. 1933)
- July 31 – Harold Prince, American theatrical producer and director (b. 1928)
August
- August 1
- August 3
- August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1926)
- August 5 – Toni Morrison, American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher and professor (b. 1931)
- August 6 – Sushma Swaraj, Indian politician (b. 1952)
- August 7 – Kary Mullis, American biochemist (b. 1944)
- August 8
- August 9
- August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (b. 1953)
- August 11
- August 12 – José Luis Brown, Argentinian footballer and coach (b. 1956)
- August 16
- August 17
- August 19 – Larry Taylor, American bass guitarist (b. 1942)
- August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Jordanian princess, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1929)
- August 22 – Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
- August 23
- August 24
- August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer (b. 1937)
- August 26 – Pal Benko, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster (b. 1928)
- August 27 – Dawda Jawara, Gambian politician, 1st President of the Gambia (b. 1924)
- August 28
- August 29 – Achille Silvestrini, Italian cardinal (b. 1923)
- August 30
- August 31
September
- September 2 – Gyoji Matsumoto, Japanese footballer (b. 1934)
- September 3
- September 4 – Roger Etchegaray, French cardinal (b. 1922)
- September 5 – Francisco Toledo, Mexican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
- September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe (b. 1924)
- September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer (b. 1946)
- September 9 – Robert Frank, Swiss photographer (b. 1924)
- September 11
- September 12 – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva, Tongan politician and activist, 15th Prime Minister of Tonga (b. 1941)
- September 13
- September 15
- September 16 – Luigi Colani, German industrial designer (b. 1928)
- September 17
- September 18 – Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (b. 1976)
- September 19
- September 21
- September 22 – Ivan Kizimov, Russian equestrian (b. 1928)
- September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician (b. 1941)
- September 25 – Paul Badura-Skoda, Austrian pianist (b. 1927)
- September 26
- September 28
- September 30
October
- October 1
- October 2
- October 3 – Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Portuguese politician, Acting Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1941)
- October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (b. 1935)
- October 6
- October 8 – Serafim Fernandes de Araújo, Brazilian cardinal (b. 1924)
- October 9 – Andrés Gimeno, Spanish tennis player (b. 1937)
- October 10 – Marie-José Nat, French actress (b. 1940)
- October 11
- October 12
- October 13 – Charles Jencks, American architect, cultural theorist and philanthropist (b. 1939)
- October 14
- Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer (b. 1930)
- Sulli, South Korean singer, songwriter, actress and model (b. 1994)
- October 15 – Tamara Buciuceanu, Romanian actress (b. 1929)
- October 16 – John Tate, American mathematician (b. 1925)
- October 17
- October 18 – Rui Jordão, Angolan-born Portuguese footballer (b. 1952)
- October 19 – Alexander Volkov, Russian tennis player (b. 1967)
- October 21 – Lho Shin-yong, 16th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1930)
- October 22
- October 26
- October 27
- October 28 – Kay Hagan, American lawyer, banking executive, and politician (b. 1953)
- October 29 – John Witherspoon, American actor and comedian (b. 1943)
November
- November 2
- November 4 – Jacques Dupont, French Olympic racing cyclist (b. 1928)
- November 5 – Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
- November 6 – Jan Stráský, Czech politician, 20th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1940)
- November 7
- November 8 – Anatoly Krutikov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- November 10 – István Szívós, Hungarian water polo player (b. 1948)
- November 11 – Ralph T. O'Neal, 4th and 6th Premier of the Virgin Islands (b. 1933)
- November 12 – Mitsuhisa Taguchi, Japanese footballer (b. 1955)
- November 13
- November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer (b. 1932)
- November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete (b. 1923)
- November 16 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer (b. 1947)
- November 17 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician and diplomat, Acting Prime Minister (b. 1923)
- November 18 – Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodian royal and prima ballerina (b. 1943)
- November 19 – D. M. Jayaratne, 14th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1931)
- November 20 – Mary L. Good, American chemist (b. 1931)
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23 – Asunción Balaguer, Spanish actress (b. 1925)
- November 24 – Goo Hara, South Korean singer and actress (b. 1991)
- November 26
- November 27
- November 28 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1956)
- November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
- November 30 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
December
- December 1 – Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
- December 2
- December 4
- December 5 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8
- René Auberjonois, American actor (b. 1940)
- Hirokazu Kanazawa, Japanese karate practitioner and teacher (b. 1931)
- Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (b. 1933)
- Paul Volcker, American economist (b. 1927)
- Zvonimir Vujin, Serbian amateur boxer (b. 1943)
- Juice Wrld, American rapper, singer, and songwriter (b. 1998)
- December 9
- December 10
- December 11 – David Bellamy, English naturalist and author (b. 1933)
- December 12
- December 14 – Anna Karina, Danish-French film actress, director, writer, and singer (b. 1940)
- December 15 – Chuck Peddle, American engineer (b. 1937)
- December 17 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (b. 1938)
- December 18 – Claudine Auger, French actress (b. 1941)
- December 20
- December 21 – Martin Peters, English footballer and manager (b. 1943)
- December 22
- December 23 – Mustafa Mujezinović, 7th Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (b. 1954)
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author (b. 1940)
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
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January
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3 – Daniel Revenu, French fencer (b. 1942)
- January 4
- January 5
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- January 8
- January 9
- January 10
- January 11 – Yury Solomin, Russian actor (b. 1935)
- January 12 – Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist (b. 1968)
- January 13 – Stephen Laybutt, Australian footballer (b. 1977)
- January 14 – Lev Rubinstein, Russian poet, essayist, and social activist (b. 1947)
- January 16
- January 17
- January 18 – Donald Adamson, British literary scholar, philosopher and historian (b. 1939)
- January 19
- January 21 – Norman Jewison, Canadian film director (b. 1926)
- January 22
- January 23
- January 24
- January 28 – Luis Tejada, Panamanian footballer (b. 1982)
- January 29 – Sandra Milo, Italian actress (b. 1933)
- January 30
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